From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935312AbYBBUxX (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Feb 2008 15:53:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764537AbYBBUww (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Feb 2008 15:52:52 -0500 Received: from smtp.polymtl.ca ([132.207.4.11]:40297 "EHLO smtp.polymtl.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762482AbYBBUwu (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Feb 2008 15:52:50 -0500 Message-Id: <20080202204930.620561121@polymtl.ca> User-Agent: quilt/0.46-1 Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:49:30 -0500 From: Mathieu Desnoyers To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar Subject: [patch 0/2] Text Edit Lock X-Poly-FromMTA: (dijkstra.casi.polymtl.ca [132.207.72.10]) at Sat, 2 Feb 2008 20:52:32 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Andrew, Here is a resend of the Text Edit Lock patchset (only 2 patches). It consists of a mutex that serializes code modification. Used by kprobes and the immediate values. Dependencies : #Kprobes mutex cleanup kprobes-use-mutex-for-insn-pages.patch kprobes-dont-use-kprobes-mutex-in-arch-code.patch kprobes-declare-kprobes-mutex-static.patch #Enhance DEBUG_RODATA support x86-enhance-debug-rodata-support-alternatives.patch x86-enhance-debug-rodata-support-for-hotplug-and-kprobes.patch It applies on top of 2.6.24-git12 in this order: #Text Edit Lock (depends on Enhance DEBUG_RODATA and kprobes mutex cleanup) text-edit-lock-architecture-independent-code.patch text-edit-lock-kprobes-architecture-independent-support.patch 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