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* [-mm][PATCH 0/6] (yet another) kprobes x86 code unification and boosters
@ 2007-12-17 16:06 Masami Hiramatsu
  2007-12-17 16:33 ` Ingo Molnar
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Masami Hiramatsu @ 2007-12-17 16:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli, Jim Keniston, Roland McGrath,
	Arjan van de Ven, prasanna, anil.s.keshavamurthy, davem,
	Ingo Molnar, Harvey Harrison
  Cc: systemtap-ml, LKML

Hello all,

I developed a series of patches which unifies kprobes code on x86
and introduces boosters on x86-64. These patches can be applied to 2.6.24-rc4-mm1.

The purpose of this patchset is unifying kprobes_[32|64].[c|h] to kprobes.[c|h]
for simplifying code maintenance.

I know these patches are conflicting with Harvey's patch.
We need to solve that.

kprobe-booster and kretprobe-booster were explained in:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=113862526017068&w=2

Currently, these patches do unification as following order.
1. Clean up and fix bugs in kprobes[1/6, 2/6].
2. Introduce kprobe-booster and kretprobe-booster for x86-64[3/6, 4/6].
   (x86-32 kprobes already has same functionalities)
3. Prepare unification[5/6].
4. Unify kprobes code[6/6].

If you have any comment, please let me know.


Best Regards,

-- 
Masami Hiramatsu

Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America) Inc.
Software Solutions Division

e-mail: mhiramat@redhat.com, masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com



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