Re: [patch 1/2] x86, ptrace: support for branch trace store(BTS)

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Metzger, Markus T <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> wrote:

> Changes to previous version(s):
> - moved task arrives/departs notifications to __switch_to_xtra()
> - added _TIF_BTS_TRACE and _TIF_BTS_TRACE_TS to _TIF_WORK_CTXSW_*
> - split _TIF_WORK_CTXSW into ~_PREV and ~_NEXT for x86_64
> - ptrace_bts_init_intel() function called from init_intel()
> - removed PTRACE_BTS_INIT ptrace command
> - cache DEBUGCTRL MSR
> - replace struct declarations and operations struct with
>   configuration struct defining offset/size pairs and
>   generic operations
> - added a patch for the ptrace.2 man page for discussing the API
>   in this forum

i tried to apply your patches to x86.git, but your patches were 
linewrapped and had strange artifacts in them:

| @@ -610,6 +612,32 @@
|                                         (struct user_desc __user *)
| data);
|                 break;
| =20
| +       case PTRACE_BTS_ALLOCATE_BUFFER:
| +

could you please resend with this fixed (preferably against x86.git, 
which has Roland's ptrace cleanups?).

	Ingo