markers: marker_synchronize_unregister()

Create marker_synchronize_unregister() which must be called 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 2008-09-29 11:05:13 -04:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 9a1e9693f5
commit e98d0eabef

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@ -160,4 +160,11 @@ extern int marker_probe_unregister_private_data(marker_probe_func *probe,
extern void *marker_get_private_data(const char *name, marker_probe_func *probe,
int num);
/*
* marker_synchronize_unregister must be called between the last marker probe
* unregistration and the end of module exit to make sure there is no caller
* executing a probe when it is freed.
*/
#define marker_synchronize_unregister() synchronize_sched()
#endif