To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@googlemail.com>,
       Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
       "Metzger, Markus T" <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>, tglx@linutronix.de,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       hpa@zytor.com, "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
       Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>, markus.t.metzger@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [patch 0/2] x86, ptrace: support for branch trace store(BTS)
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:11:09 +0100
In-Reply-To: <20071203164506.GA16135@elte.hu> (Ingo Molnar's message of "Mon\, 3 Dec 2007 17\:45\:06 +0100")
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Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:

> * Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
>
>> Just don't wait for that. utrace doesn't seem to have any concrete 
>> plans to merge any time soon AFAIK[1] and it would be a shame to delay 
>> an useful feature forever.
>> 
>> [1] At least the patches have not reached any mailing lists
>
> FYI, as far as arch/x86 goes, the merging of Roland's utrace preparatory 
> patches is well underway in x86.git, and the merge went pretty well so 
> far, with robust results. It's 49 patches so far:

I see. They are planning to just skip the public review stage?  Clever.

-Andi
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