linux-kernel - Re: What's the correct tree to route kprobes patches through?

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Date:	Tue, 13 Jan 2015 21:23:07 +0900
From:	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>
To:	"Jon Medhurst (Tixy)" <tixy@...aro.org>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Wang Nan <wangnan0@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: What's the correct tree to route kprobes patches through?

(2015/01/13 3:21), Jon Medhurst (Tixy) wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I'm wondering what the correct route is for getting kprobes patches into
> mainline Linux. In particular I'm interested in a patch from Masami
> Hiramatsu [1] which is a dependency for some ARM kprobes work we want to
> merge. If acceptable, we could submit that one though the ARM
> maintainer's tree with our other work.

I'm OK to merge that patch via ARM's tree. Fortunately, that patch is
just a minor change. So I think it works.

Usually only generic or x86-dependent kprobes patches are upstreamed via
tip tree, and arch-dependent part of kprobes patches should go through arch
specific tree.
Of course I can also provide a new git repo for kprobes on kernel.org. :)
(But still which repo I should send a pull request is a question...)

Thank you,

> 
> [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=142045769001242&w=2
>     (kprobes: Pass the original kprobe for preparing optimized kprobe)




-- 
Masami HIRAMATSU
Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Research Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com


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