From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752663Ab1ITSNB (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:13:01 -0400 Received: from 173-166-109-252-newengland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([173.166.109.252]:39366 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751023Ab1ITSNA (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:13:00 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:12:25 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Stefan Hajnoczi Cc: Srikar Dronamraju , Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Steven Rostedt , Linux-mm , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Linus Torvalds , Masami Hiramatsu , Hugh Dickins , Christoph Hellwig , Andi Kleen , Thomas Gleixner , Jonathan Corbet , Oleg Nesterov , Andrew Morton , Jim Keniston , Roland McGrath , Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3.1.0-rc4-tip 8/26] x86: analyze instruction and determine fixups. Message-ID: <20110920181225.GA5149@infradead.org> References: <20110920115938.25326.93059.sendpatchset@srdronam.in.ibm.com> <20110920120127.25326.71509.sendpatchset@srdronam.in.ibm.com> <20110920171310.GC27959@stefanha-thinkpad.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110920171310.GC27959@stefanha-thinkpad.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 06:13:10PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > You've probably thought of this but it would be nice to skip XOL for > nops. This would be a common case with static probes (e.g. sdt.h) where > the probe template includes a nop where we can easily plant int $0x3. Do we now have sdt.h support for uprobes? That's one of the killer features that always seemed to get postponed. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail6.bemta8.messagelabs.com (mail6.bemta8.messagelabs.com [216.82.243.55]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9B469000BD for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:12:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:12:25 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3.1.0-rc4-tip 8/26] x86: analyze instruction and determine fixups. Message-ID: <20110920181225.GA5149@infradead.org> References: <20110920115938.25326.93059.sendpatchset@srdronam.in.ibm.com> <20110920120127.25326.71509.sendpatchset@srdronam.in.ibm.com> <20110920171310.GC27959@stefanha-thinkpad.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110920171310.GC27959@stefanha-thinkpad.localdomain> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Stefan Hajnoczi Cc: Srikar Dronamraju , Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Steven Rostedt , Linux-mm , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Linus Torvalds , Masami Hiramatsu , Hugh Dickins , Christoph Hellwig , Andi Kleen , Thomas Gleixner , Jonathan Corbet , Oleg Nesterov , Andrew Morton , Jim Keniston , Roland McGrath , Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli , LKML On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 06:13:10PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > You've probably thought of this but it would be nice to skip XOL for > nops. This would be a common case with static probes (e.g. sdt.h) where > the probe template includes a nop where we can easily plant int $0x3. Do we now have sdt.h support for uprobes? That's one of the killer features that always seemed to get postponed. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org