[PATCH -tip/urgent 1/2] [BUGFIX]kprobes: set kprobes_all_disarmed earlier to enable re-optimization.
Andrew Morton
akpm at linux-foundation.org
Thu Feb 5 14:49:54 PST 2015
On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 15:42:24 +0900 Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt at hitachi.com> wrote:
> From: Wang Nan <wangnan0 at huawei.com>
>
> In original code, the probed instruction doesn't get optimized after
>
> echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/kprobes/enabled
> echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/kprobes/enabled
>
> This is because original code checks kprobes_all_disarmed in
> optimize_kprobe(), but this flag is turned off after calling that
> function. Therefore, optimize_kprobe() will see
> kprobes_all_disarmed == true and doesn't do the optimization.
>
> This patch simply turns off kprobes_all_disarmed earlier to enable
> optimization.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0 at huawei.com>
> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt at hitachi.com>
You sent the patches, so this should have been "Signed-off-by:".
Documentation/SubmittingPatches section 12 has the details.
I have made that change to my copy of these two patches.
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