linux-kernel - [patch 00/17] Text Edit Lock and Immediate Values for 2.6.25-rc8-mm1

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Message-Id: <20080409150829.855195878@polymtl.ca>
Date:	Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:08:29 -0400
From:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: [patch 00/17] Text Edit Lock and Immediate Values for 2.6.25-rc8-mm1

Hi Andrew,

Here is the complete patchset required to get basic Immediate Values support
ported to 2.6.25-rc8-mm1. It provides the "simple", non nmi-safe version of
immediate values, which means that immediate values should not be used in code
paths reachable by NMI or MCE handlers. This version also uses
stop_machine_run() for immediate values updates, which is a very heavy lock.  In
order to make incremental, easy to review, changes, I think we could start by
this "simple" version as a first step before we switch to the nmi-safe version
later.

It applies at the end of your series files in the following order :

# The following patches are required for any kind of immediate values
# implementation
kprobes-use-mutex-for-insn-pages.patch
kprobes-dont-use-kprobes-mutex-in-arch-code.patch
kprobes-declare-kprobes-mutex-static.patch

x86-enhance-debug-rodata-support-alternatives.patch
fix-text-poke-for-vmalloced-pages.patch
x86-enhance-debug-rodata-support-for-hotplug-and-kprobes.patch

text-edit-lock-architecture-independent-code.patch
text-edit-lock-kprobes-architecture-independent-support.patch

# The following patches provide non nmi-safe immediate values
add-all-cpus-option-to-stop-machine-run.patch
immediate-values-architecture-independent-code.patch
implement-immediate-update-via-stop-machine-run.patch
immediate-values-kconfig-menu-in-embedded.patch
immediate-values-x86-optimization.patch
add-text-poke-and-sync-core-to-powerpc.patch
immediate-values-powerpc-optimization.patch
immediate-values-documentation.patch

#Those are the immediate values users
scheduler-profiling-use-immediate-values.patch

Thanks,

Mathieu

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