From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757423AbYDIQWn (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Apr 2008 12:22:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755319AbYDIQVT (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Apr 2008 12:21:19 -0400 Received: from smtp.polymtl.ca ([132.207.4.11]:58345 "EHLO smtp.polymtl.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755204AbYDIQVS (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Apr 2008 12:21:18 -0400 Message-Id: <20080409150829.855195878@polymtl.ca> User-Agent: quilt/0.46-1 Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:08:29 -0400 From: Mathieu Desnoyers To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Andi Kleen , Rusty Russell Subject: [patch 00/17] Text Edit Lock and Immediate Values for 2.6.25-rc8-mm1 X-Poly-FromMTA: (dijkstra.casi.polymtl.ca [132.207.72.10]) at Wed, 9 Apr 2008 16:20:06 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Andrew, Here is the complete patchset required to get basic Immediate Values support ported to 2.6.25-rc8-mm1. It provides the "simple", non nmi-safe version of immediate values, which means that immediate values should not be used in code paths reachable by NMI or MCE handlers. This version also uses stop_machine_run() for immediate values updates, which is a very heavy lock. In order to make incremental, easy to review, changes, I think we could start by this "simple" version as a first step before we switch to the nmi-safe version later. It applies at the end of your series files in the following order : # The following patches are required for any kind of immediate values # implementation kprobes-use-mutex-for-insn-pages.patch kprobes-dont-use-kprobes-mutex-in-arch-code.patch kprobes-declare-kprobes-mutex-static.patch x86-enhance-debug-rodata-support-alternatives.patch fix-text-poke-for-vmalloced-pages.patch x86-enhance-debug-rodata-support-for-hotplug-and-kprobes.patch text-edit-lock-architecture-independent-code.patch text-edit-lock-kprobes-architecture-independent-support.patch # The following patches provide non nmi-safe immediate values add-all-cpus-option-to-stop-machine-run.patch immediate-values-architecture-independent-code.patch implement-immediate-update-via-stop-machine-run.patch immediate-values-kconfig-menu-in-embedded.patch immediate-values-x86-optimization.patch add-text-poke-and-sync-core-to-powerpc.patch immediate-values-powerpc-optimization.patch immediate-values-documentation.patch #Those are the immediate values users scheduler-profiling-use-immediate-values.patch Thanks, 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