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

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Message-ID: <20160815154114.GG22320@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.com>
Date:	Mon, 15 Aug 2016 16:41:14 +0100
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:	David Long <dave.long@...aro.org>, daniel.thompson@...aro.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, marc.zyngier@....com,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
	sparclinux@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: kprobes: Document jprobes stack copying
 limitations

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 09:32:43AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> 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?

To avoid any doubt, for arm64:

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>

(and I want the patch applied)