Re: [RFC PATCH V2] tracing/kprobe: Wait for disabling all runningkprobe handlers

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Mon Jul 15 2013 - 14:25:24 EST


On 07/09, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
>
> Wait for disabling all running kprobe handlers when a kprobe
> event is disabled, since the caller, trace_remove_event_call()
> supposes that a removing event is disabled completely by
> disabling the event.
> With this change, ftrace can ensure that there is no running
> event handlers after disabling it.
>
> Changes in V2:
> - Comment (in code) for clarify why we need to wait there.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Agreed.

We need this change in any case, whatever we do in trace/trace_events.c
and in unregister_trace_probe().

Oleg.

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