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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 23:37:08 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip v11 00/27] kprobes: Fix stacktrace with kretprobes on x86
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To: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Kernel Team <kernel-team@fb.com>, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>, Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>, Paul McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

On Fri, 1 Oct 2021 08:27:33 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> wrote:

> Let me explain how the patches are usually merged.
> 
> - kernel/kprobes.c related patches go through the tip tree.
> - kernel/trace/* patches go through the tracing tree.

And arch/*/kprobe* usually goes through tip as well.

> 
> So traditionally(?) I think this series go through the tip tree,
> but since the biggest user of kprobes is tracing and the kprobes fix
> now involves tree-wide fixes as you can see in this series, I think
> it is a good timing to move kprobes to tracing tree.

I'll pick it up and take the burden off of Thomas.

Just to confirm, this is for the next merge window, right?

-- Steve