| From: |
| Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> |
| To: |
| Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>, Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>, Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, prasanna@i |
| Subject: |
| [RFC -mm][PATCH 0/6] kprobes x86 code unification and boosters |
| Date: |
| Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:52:46 -0500 |
| Message-ID: |
| <475DC33E.8080907@redhat.com> |
| Cc: |
| systemtap-ml <systemtap@sources.redhat.com> |
Hello all,
I developed a series of patches which unifies kprobes code on x86
and introduces boosters on x86-64. These patches can be applied to 2.6.24-rc4-mm1.
The purpose of this patchset is unifying kprobes_[32|64].[c|h] to kprobes.[c|h]
for simplifying code maintenance.
kprobe-booster and kretprobe-booster were explained in:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=113862526017068&...
Currently, these patches do unification as following order.
1. Clean up and fix bugs in kprobes[1/6, 2/6].
2. Introduce kprobe-booster and kretprobe-booster for x86-64[3/6, 4/6].
(x86-32 kprobes already has same functionalities)
3. Prepare unification[5/6].
4. Unify kprobes code[6/6].
If you have any comment, please let me know.
Arjan,
I have added your signed-off on 5th patch. Is it OK?
It is based on your patch.
Best Regards,
--
Masami Hiramatsu
Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America) Inc.
Software Solutions Division
e-mail: mhiramat@redhat.com, masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com
