From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753975AbXLFOMh (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Dec 2007 09:12:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751592AbXLFOM3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Dec 2007 09:12:29 -0500 Received: from tomts13.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.34]:54909 "EHLO tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753109AbXLFOM2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Dec 2007 09:12:28 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ah4FAP6RV0dMROHU/2dsb2JhbACBWo9P Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 09:07:22 -0500 From: Mathieu Desnoyers To: Heiko Carstens Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 00/11] Text Edit Lock for 2.6.24-rc4-git3 Message-ID: <20071206140722.GA10542@Krystal> References: <20071206020246.417605824@polymtl.ca> <20071206094712.GB10455@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071206094712.GB10455@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> X-Editor: vi X-Info: http://krystal.dyndns.org:8080 X-Operating-System: Linux/2.6.21.3-grsec (i686) X-Uptime: 08:59:35 up 32 days, 19:05, 4 users, load average: 0.27, 0.23, 0.33 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Heiko Carstens (heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com) wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 09:02:46PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Here is a repost of the text edit lock for 2.6.24-rc4-mm3. It is useful to > > coordinate modification of live kernel code patching. > > > > It includes a modification to kprobes (its first user) and is useful for the > > Immediate Values. > > > > It could be interesting to queue it for 2.6.25. > > Everytime I see your huge patchset I'm wondering what it is good for and > give up since the patch set is large. It would be very helpful if your > patch descriptions would not only describe what you do but also why you > do it. Kernel tracing, so that we can help userspace application developpers and kernel developpers debug problems caused by system-wide program interactions. See : The patchset, including the LTTng tracer : http://ltt.polymtl.ca/lttng/patch-2.6.24-rc4-git3-lttng-0.10-pre39.tar.bz2 To get the userspace apps that are needed to do something useful : http://ltt.polymtl.ca/lttng/ltt-control-0.46-06112007.tar.gz http://ltt.polymtl.ca/packages/lttv-0.10.0-pre5-05122007.tar.gz http://ltt.polymtl.ca/svn/ltt/branches/poly/QUICKSTART (a bit outdated) Mathieu -- Mathieu Desnoyers Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68