Re: [PATCH] kprobes, x86/alternatives: use text_mutex to protect smp_alt_modules

[zhouchengming]

On 2017/11/1 5:59, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Oct 2017 17:03:23 +0900
> Masami Hiramatsu<mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>
> > >   static LIST_HEAD(smp_alt_modules);
> > > -static DEFINE_MUTEX(smp_alt);
> > > -static bool uniproc_patched = false;	/* protected by smp_alt */
> > > +static bool uniproc_patched = false;	/* protected by text_mutex */
> We should also add a comment somewhere by the text_mutex that it is
> protecting this on x86.

Good, I will send a patch-v2 adding this comment.

Thanks!

> -- Steve
>
> .