linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: kprobes: Document jprobes stack copying limitations

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Message-ID: <20160815093243.4576258a@lwn.net>
Date:	Mon, 15 Aug 2016 09:32:43 -0600
From:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:	David Long <dave.long@...aro.org>
Cc:	sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, daniel.thompson@...aro.org,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, catalin.marinas@....com,
	marc.zyngier@....com, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: kprobes: Document jprobes stack copying
 limitations

On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 10:49:36 -0400
David Long <dave.long@...aro.org> wrote:

> On 08/15/2016 10:25 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> > On Fri, 12 Aug 2016 16:24:44 -0400
> > David Long <dave.long@...aro.org> wrote:
> >  
> >> Some architectures (i.e.: sparc64 and arm64) make reasonable partial stack
> >> duplication for jprobes problematic. Document this.  
> >
> > Applied to the docs tree, thanks.
> >
> > jon
> >  
> 
> Was kind of hoping to see an ack (or critique) from a sparc maintainer.

So are you saying you don't want the patch applied at this point?

jon