Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932068AbWKQPGl (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:06:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932924AbWKQPGk (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:06:40 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:22930 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932068AbWKQPGj (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:06:39 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH][kprobe] enabling booster on the preemptible kernel From: Ingo Molnar To: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" , Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli , "bibo,mao" , Prasanna S Panchamukhi , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel , SystemTAP , Yumiko Sugita , Satoshi Oshima , Hideo Aoki In-Reply-To: <455DAC83.3030505@hitachi.com> References: <455DAC83.3030505@hitachi.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:04:03 +0100 Message-Id: <1163775843.8789.55.camel@earth> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1.1 (2.8.1.1-3.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 877 Lines: 23 On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 21:35 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > From: Masami Hiramatsu > > This patch enables the kprobe-booster on the preemptible kernel. > For this purpose, I introduced a kind of garbage collector of > the instruction slots. This garbage collector checks safety before > releasing the garbage slots. > > Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu nice work - looks really sensible! This opens the door to djprobes (or rather, to the transparent kprobes speedup that used to be a separate interface), right? Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Ingo - 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/