Re: [PATCH v4 3.0-rc2-tip 7/22] 7: uprobes: mmap and fork hooks.

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 14:50 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
>  *  - Introduce uprobes_list and uprobes_vaddr in vm_area_struct.
>  *    uprobes_list is a node in the temp list of vmas while
>  *    registering/unregistering uprobes. uprobes_vaddr caches the vaddr to
>  *    insert/remove the breakpoint.
>  *
>  *  - Introduce srcu to synchronize vma deletion with walking the list of
>  *    vma in register/unregister_uprobe.

I don't think you can sell this, that'll make munmap() horridly slow.

>  *  - Introduce uprobes_mmap_mutex to synchronize uprobe deletion and
>  *    mmap_uprobe(). 

Yes, that'll work I think.
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