Re: [PATCH 4/9] ftrace: Add enable/disable ftrace_ops controlinterface

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Nov 28 2011 - 15:05:54 EST


On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 21:02 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 14:26 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> >
> > Are jump labels safe in NMI context yet? If not, this will need to wait
> > till we make it so.
>
> I don't think they are, we currently very much rely on that
> stop_machine() crap. NMIs can go straight through that.
>
> I think you can make it work with the stop_machine()-less approach,
> because then the NMI will trap on the INT3 which will wait for
> completion, sync and resume the NMI.

Note that this of course precludes ever using jump_labels from do_int3
handlers ;-)
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