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SubjectRe: [PATCH] kprobes, x86/alternatives: use text_mutex to protect smp_alt_modules
On 2017/11/1 5:59, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Oct 2017 17:03:23 +0900
> Masami Hiramatsu<mhiramat@kernel.org> wrote:
>
>>> static LIST_HEAD(smp_alt_modules);
>>> -static DEFINE_MUTEX(smp_alt);
>>> -static bool uniproc_patched = false; /* protected by smp_alt */
>>> +static bool uniproc_patched = false; /* protected by text_mutex */
> We should also add a comment somewhere by the text_mutex that it is
> protecting this on x86.

Good, I will send a patch-v2 adding this comment.

Thanks!

> -- Steve
>
> .
>


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