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Commit fc06b852 authored by Steven Rostedt's avatar Steven Rostedt Committed by Steven Rostedt
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x86/tracing: comment need for atomic nop



The dynamic function tracer relys on the macro P6_NOP5 always being
an atomic NOP. If for some reason it is changed to be two operations
(like a nop2 nop3) it can faults within the kernel when the function
tracer modifies the code.

This patch adds a comment to note that the P6_NOPs are expected to
be atomic. This will hopefully prevent anyone from changing that.

Reported-by: default avatarMathieu Desnoyer <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
parent 197e2eab
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