linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86: add kprobe-booster to X86

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Message-ID: <20071218135856.GC17470@elte.hu>
Date:	Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:58:56 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
Cc:	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>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86: add kprobe-booster to X86_64


* Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 12:29 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Sorry I missed an ifdef in this patch in the following hunk:
> > 
> > could you resend your kprobes cleanups against current x86.git? They
> > have been conceptually acked by Masami. This cuts out the unification
> > part of your queue which is bad luck but the effort has been duplicated
> > already so there's not much we can do about it i guess.
> > 
> > Your other 17 cleanup and unification patches are still queued up in
> > x86.git and passed a lot of testing, so they will likely go into
> > v2.6.25. Nice work!
> > 
> > 	Ingo
> 
> Ingo,
> 
> I'd suggest just tossing my kprobes cleanups.  I just sent you a rollup
> of anything I saw that was left in mine that was still worthwhile
> after Masami's, included below for reference.  It didn't amount to much
> left so I rolled it all together:
> 
> Subject: [PATCH] x86: kprobes leftover cleanups
> 
> Eliminate __always_inline, all of these static functions are
> only called once.  Minor whitespace cleanup.  Eliminate one
> supefluous return at end of void function.  Reverse sense of
> #ifndef to be #ifdef to show the case only affects X86_32.

thanks, i've applied them.

	Ingo
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