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authorMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>2008-11-14 17:47:48 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-11-16 09:01:37 +0100
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tracepoints: documentation fix for teardown
Impact: documentation update Need a tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() before the end of exit() to make sure every probe callers have exited the non preemptible section and thus are not executing the probe code anymore. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Connecting a function (probe) to a tracepoint is done by providing a probe
(function to call) for the specific tracepoint through
register_trace_subsys_eventname(). Removing a probe is done through
-unregister_trace_subsys_eventname(); it will remove the probe sure there is no
-caller left using the probe when it returns. Probe removal is preempt-safe
-because preemption is disabled around the probe call. See the "Probe example"
-section below for a sample probe module.
+unregister_trace_subsys_eventname(); it will remove the probe.
+marker_synchronize_unregister() must be called before the end of the module exit
+function to make sure there is no caller left using the probe. This, and the
+fact that preemption is disabled around the probe call, make sure that probe
+removal and module unload are safe. See the "Probe example" section below for a
+sample probe module.
The tracepoint mechanism supports inserting multiple instances of the same
tracepoint, but a single definition must be made of a given tracepoint name over