Re: [Dle-develop] [PATCH tracing/kprobes] kprobes: Disable booster when CONFIG_PREEMPT=y

[Ananth N M. <an...@in...>]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 04:55:31PM -0500, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Disable kprobe booster when CONFIG_PREEMPT=y, because it can't ensure
> that all kernel threads preempted on kprobe's boosted slot run out from
> the slot even using freeze_processes().
> 
> The booster on preemptive kernel will be resumed if synchronize_tasks()
> or something like that is introduced.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhi...@re...>

Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <an...@in...>