Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760036AbXLMQMy (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:12:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753614AbXLMQMq (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:12:46 -0500 Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:6280 "EHLO mga01.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753186AbXLMQMo convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:12:44 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.24,162,1196668800"; d="scan'208";a="436868341" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: RE: x86, ptrace: support for branch trace store(BTS) Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:06:15 -0000 Message-ID: <029E5BE7F699594398CA44E3DDF5544401187085@swsmsx413.ger.corp.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <20071213130814.GC28340@elte.hu> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: x86, ptrace: support for branch trace store(BTS) thread-index: Acg9iUL+TBkmgnUAQpCHzXICUyBu4gAAfTgA References: <20071210123809.A14251@sedona.ch.intel.com> <20071210202052.GA26002@elte.hu> <029E5BE7F699594398CA44E3DDF5544401130A1E@swsmsx413.ger.corp.intel.com> <20071211145301.GA19427@elte.hu> <029E5BE7F699594398CA44E3DDF554440115D3C5@swsmsx413.ger.corp.intel.com> <20071212110330.GD1611@elte.hu> <029E5BE7F699594398CA44E3DDF554440115D6DC@swsmsx413.ger.corp.intel.com> <20071213102939.GS8977@elte.hu> <029E5BE7F699594398CA44E3DDF5544401186D54@swsmsx413.ger.corp.intel.com> <20071213130814.GC28340@elte.hu> From: "Metzger, Markus T" To: "Ingo Molnar" Cc: , , , , , "Siddha, Suresh B" , , , , "Alan Stern" X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Dec 2007 16:06:16.0940 (UTC) FILETIME=[17907AC0:01C83DA2] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1539 Lines: 42 >-----Original Message----- >From: Ingo Molnar [mailto:mingo@elte.hu] >Sent: Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2007 14:08 >> Are you OK with this? > >this sounds a lot more flexible to me. Please, once it looks >good to all I will implement the ptrace ABI and the man pages and send them out for review (I'll return -EOPNOTSUPP a few times) tomorrow. I'll add support for the overflow signal in a later patch, once I figured out how to do it. >of us also extend LTP's ptrace bits with unit tests for these API >additions. (Cc: such LTP bits to subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com) I need to look into this. This will take some time, as well. regards, markus. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Intel GmbH Dornacher Strasse 1 85622 Feldkirchen/Muenchen Germany Sitz der Gesellschaft: Feldkirchen bei Muenchen Geschaeftsfuehrer: Douglas Lusk, Peter Gleissner, Hannes Schwaderer Registergericht: Muenchen HRB 47456 Ust.-IdNr. VAT Registration No.: DE129385895 Citibank Frankfurt (BLZ 502 109 00) 600119052 This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review or distribution by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies. -- 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/