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From: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>,
	Jim Keniston <jkenisto@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 7/10] Uprobes Implementation
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:52:52 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100324102252.GA10710@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BA8CE39.8050203@redhat.com>

> Anyway, the patch order looks a bit odd, because user_bkpt uses XOL
> but XOL patch is introduced after user_bkpt patch...
> 
user_bkpt provides xol strategy.

user_bkpt_xol patch only provides slot allocation for Execution out of
line strategy.  It doesnt implement execution out of line strategy.
The current implementation assumes that we pass the user_bkpt structure
as an argument while allocating/freeing a slot.

user_bkpt knows how to handle execution out of line. Its working is
independent of how and where the slot is allocated.  The field xol_vaddr
points to a location which holds the copy of the instruction to be
single-stepped/executed.

Hence user_bkpt patch was followed by user_bkpt_xol patch.

--
Thanks and Regards
Srikar

> Thank you,
> 
> -- 
> Masami Hiramatsu
> e-mail: mhiramat@redhat.com
> 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-24 10:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-20 14:24 [PATCH v1 0/10] Uprobes patches Srikar Dronamraju
2010-03-20 14:25 ` [PATCH v1 1/10] Move Macro W to insn.h Srikar Dronamraju
2010-03-20 15:50   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2010-03-22  6:24     ` Srikar Dronamraju
2010-03-22 14:11       ` Masami Hiramatsu
2010-03-20 14:25 ` [PATCH v1 2/10] Move replace_page() to mm/memory.c Srikar Dronamraju
2010-03-20 14:25 ` [PATCH v1 3/10] Enhance replace_page() to support pagecache Srikar Dronamraju
2010-03-20 14:25 ` [PATCH v1 4/10] User Space Breakpoint Assistance Layer Srikar Dronamraju
2010-03-23  1:40   ` Andrew Morton
2010-03-23  4:48     ` Randy Dunlap
2010-03-23 11:26     ` Srikar Dronamraju
2010-03-20 14:25 ` [PATCH v1 5/10] X86 details for user space breakpoint assistance Srikar Dronamraju
2010-03-20 14:26 ` [PATCH v1 6/10] Slot allocation for Execution out of line Srikar Dronamraju
2010-03-20 14:26 ` [PATCH v1 7/10] Uprobes Implementation Srikar Dronamraju
2010-03-23 11:01   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-23 11:04     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-23 12:23     ` Srikar Dronamraju
2010-03-23 13:46       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-23 14:20         ` Masami Hiramatsu
2010-03-23 15:15           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-23 17:36             ` Masami Hiramatsu
2010-03-24 10:22           ` Srikar Dronamraju [this message]
2010-03-23 15:05         ` Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
2010-03-23 15:15           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-23 15:26             ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2010-03-24  5:59             ` Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
2010-03-24  7:58         ` Srikar Dronamraju
2010-03-24 13:00           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-25  7:56             ` Srikar Dronamraju
2010-03-25  8:41             ` Srikar Dronamraju
2010-03-20 14:26 ` [PATCH v1 8/10] X86 details for uprobes Srikar Dronamraju
2010-03-20 14:26 ` [PATCH v1 9/10] Uprobes Documentation patch Srikar Dronamraju
2010-03-22  3:00   ` Randy Dunlap
2010-03-22  5:34     ` Srikar Dronamraju
2010-03-22 14:51       ` Randy Dunlap
2010-03-20 14:26 ` [PATCH v1 10/10] Uprobes samples Srikar Dronamraju
2010-03-23  1:38 ` [PATCH v1 0/10] Uprobes patches Andrew Morton
2010-03-23 10:55   ` Srikar Dronamraju

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