Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754306Ab3G2JYE (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jul 2013 05:24:04 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:45853 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754276Ab3G2JYD (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jul 2013 05:24:03 -0400 Message-ID: <51F63487.7040003@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 02:23:19 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jiri Kosina CC: "H. Peter Anvin" , mingo@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, tglx@linutronix.de, fengguang.wu@intel.com, tip-bot for Jiri Kosina , linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [tip:perf/core] kprobes/x86: Call out into INT3 handler directly instead of using notifier References: <51EFE5A8.1060109@linux.intel.com> <51F6327A.9090609@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1172 Lines: 32 On 07/29/2013 02:18 AM, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jul 2013, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >>>> Please note that putting this patch in perf/core means x86/jumplabel is >>>> completely nonfunctional by itself. >>> >>> I'd like to point out that this is still the case ... TIA, >> >> What is? > > 17f41571bb2c4a is only in perf/core, x86/jumplabel is missing it. I am not > sure about the tip workflow, but as it is now, x86/jumplabel is buggy, so > it should be either fixed (by pulling 17f41571bb2c4a from perf/core) or > removed, or somehow marked as broken ... ? > > Not a big deal for me as long as perf/core is fine, but as you were > mentioning it ... > Yes, we know. In effect, x86/jumplabel not really a working standalone topic branch at the moment. It is probably not worth fixing it for this kernel cycle, as the number of patches involved is relatively small, but it is perhaps a bit unfortunate. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/