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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>,
	utrace-devel@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH 0/2] utrace/ptrace: simplify/cleanup ptrace attach
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 21:30:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090504193016.GA17076@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090504184951.623CEFC32F@magilla.sf.frob.com>

On 05/04, Roland McGrath wrote:
>
> I guess I'm slightly confused.

Me too ;)

> We want to merge all of the "pure" ptrace
> cleanup patches before any utrace patch.

Yes, exactly!

The second patch "ptrace: do not use task_lock() for attach" has nothing
to do with utrace, and it is really pure ptrace cleanup.

But it can't be applied to -mm tree, because it (textually) conficts with
utrace changes in ptrace_attach().

> When those are on their way,
> we'll update the utrace patches not to conflict.  I don't think it makes
> sense to include utrace.patch's little ptrace.c change in the baseline tree
> for your ptrace cleanup patches.

Yes, but in this case, how can we push it before utrace-core.patch ?

The first patch is only for -mm, to avoid the painful dependencies.


Since you seem to mostly agree with the second patch, what should I do?

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-04 19:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-03 18:55 [RFC, PATCH 0/2] utrace/ptrace: simplify/cleanup ptrace attach Oleg Nesterov
2009-05-04 18:49 ` Roland McGrath
2009-05-04 19:30   ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2009-05-04 19:43     ` Roland McGrath
2009-05-04 23:31       ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-05  1:12         ` Roland McGrath
2009-05-05 23:06         ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-05-06  8:12           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-06  8:23             ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-06  9:05               ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-06  9:11                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-06  9:37                   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-07  6:13                     ` Roland McGrath
2009-05-08 15:08                       ` Ingo Molnar

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