linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm 0/6] kprobes: Per-probe disabling support

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Message-ID: <20090113050831.GF12392@in.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:38:31 +0530
From:	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>
To:	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...hat.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jim Keniston <jkenisto@...ibm.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	systemtap-ml <systemtap@...rces.redhat.com>,
	Maneesh Soni <maneesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm 0/6] kprobes: Per-probe disabling support

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 08:55:27PM -0500, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Currently, kprobes can disable all probes at once, but can't disable it
> individually (not unregister, just disable an kprobe, because unregistering
> needs to wait for scheduler synchronization).
> These patches introduce APIs for on-the-fly per-probe disabling and
> re-enabling by dis-arming/re-arming its breakpoint instruction.
> 
> These patches can be applied on the latest -mm tree including my previous
> bugfix patch (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/5/472).
> 
> You can download a test of this feature from here:
> http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=3082&action=view
> 
> Thank you,
> 
>  Documentation/kprobes.txt |   38 +++++-
>  include/linux/kprobes.h   |   51 +++++++-
>  kernel/kprobes.c          |  281 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  3 files changed, 279 insertions(+), 91 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>

...for the patchset.

Thanks for the work Masami. We'll need to allow this set to cook in
-mm/next for a few weeks before it goes upstream.

Ananth
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