From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757297AbZEEXLx (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 May 2009 19:11:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752825AbZEEXLo (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 May 2009 19:11:44 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:35508 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752209AbZEEXLn (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 May 2009 19:11:43 -0400 Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 01:06:42 +0200 From: Oleg Nesterov To: Andrew Morton Cc: Roland McGrath , jdike@addtoit.com, utrace-devel@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH 0/2] utrace/ptrace: simplify/cleanup ptrace attach Message-ID: <20090505230642.GA980@redhat.com> References: <20090503185537.GA17071@redhat.com> <20090504184951.623CEFC32F@magilla.sf.frob.com> <20090504193016.GA17076@redhat.com> <20090504194348.BC0EBFC32F@magilla.sf.frob.com> <20090504163154.f3672a83.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090504163154.f3672a83.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05/04, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Mon, 4 May 2009 12:43:48 -0700 (PDT) > Roland McGrath wrote: > > > I guess we should take Andrew's advice on this. To me, it makes most sense > > just to order the -mm patches so utrace comes later, and replace the utrace > > patch as necessary with a compatible version. Perhaps things would be > > simpler if we made a separate standalone series or git tree (tip/ptrace?) > > for ptrace cleanups. > > Staging the utrace patch at end-of-series would make sense if utrace is > not on track for a 2.6.31 merge. > > And afaict, this is indeed the case - things seem to have gone a bit > quiet on the utrace front lately. The only goal of current ptrace cleanups is to simplify the "ptrace over utrace" change (hopefully they make sense by themselves though). I am obviously biased, but imho the only real problem with utrace-ptrace.patch is the current ptrace code which needs cleanups. Oleg.