Re: [PATCH 2/5] uprobes: suppress uprobe_munmap() from mmput()

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 12:09 +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> No, mmap/munmap do not participate in uprobe refcounting. This code
> does put_uprobe() for each uprobe, yes, but only because the counter
> was incremented in build_probe_list().
> 
> uprobe_munmap() is only needed to decrement mm->uprobes_state.count,
> but nobody except uprobe_munmap() itself will use it after mmput(). 

OK, that also answers my other question.

Thanks
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