Re: Lastest kprobes64 patch

[David Long <dave dot long at linaro dot org>]

On 08/04/2016 01:03 AM, Pratyush Anand wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> On 03/08/2016:04:00:33 PM, David Long wrote:
> > In repsonse to the prolonged discussion on issues with use of a duplicated
> > stack for jprobes on arm64 I have created the requested change of removing
> > the stack duplication code altogether.  I don't know how this affects
> > systemtap.  It would also be good to have a better idea of how much
> > systemtap makes use of jprobes.
> >
> > The new additional patch, plus Catalin's accumulated patches since
> > kprobes64-v15, are now in my (recreated) kprobes64-v16 branch.  If someone
> > has time to exercise this it I would be grateful.
>
> Your all patches except "arm64: Remove stack duplicating code from jprobes" are
> already in torvalds/linux.git:master now.
>
> ~Pratyush

Thanks for that info, I was expecting it to be held up for removal of 
the jprobes stack duplicating code.

Note that I plan to send out a separate patch for the improvement to the 
code searching for atomic sequences.  I didn't think it was wise or 
necessary to try and bundle that into the initial patch at the point it 
was at.

-dl