linux-kernel - Re: [-mm][PATCH 0/6] (yet another) kprobes x86 code unification and boosters

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Message-Id: <1197919042.23402.1.camel@brick>
Date:	Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:17:22 -0800
From:	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...hat.com>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>,
	Jim Keniston <jkenisto@...ibm.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	prasanna@...ibm.com, anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com,
	davem@...emloft.net, systemtap-ml <systemtap@...rces.redhat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [-mm][PATCH 0/6] (yet another) kprobes x86 code unification
	and boosters

On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 17:33 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...hat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I developed a series of patches which unifies kprobes code on x86 and 
> > introduces boosters on x86-64. These patches can be applied to 
> > 2.6.24-rc4-mm1.
> > 
> > The purpose of this patchset is unifying kprobes_[32|64].[c|h] to 
> > kprobes.[c|h] for simplifying code maintenance.
> > 
> > I know these patches are conflicting with Harvey's patch. We need to 
> > solve that.
> 
> your series fixes the 64-bit crash that i was seeing, so i've picked it 
> up. Please work it out with Harvey which cleanups of him are not 
> included yet.
> 

I thought the jprobe_saved_sp looked fishy on X86_64 in my unified set
but I went bug-for-bug compatible I guess :-)  If you look at my cleaned
up set this was one of the main source of remaining ifdefs.

Harvey


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