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tracepoints: documentation fix for teardown

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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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Mathieu Desnoyers 2008-11-14 17:47:48 -05:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
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Documentation/tracepoints.txt
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@ -70,10 +70,12 @@ Where :
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