Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933811AbXLQQHx (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:07:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932139AbXLQQHm (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:07:42 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:58077 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932123AbXLQQHl (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:07:41 -0500 Message-ID: <47669E87.1010506@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:06:31 -0500 From: Masami Hiramatsu User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli , Jim Keniston , Roland McGrath , Arjan van de Ven , prasanna@in.ibm.com, anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com, davem@davemloft.net, Ingo Molnar , Harvey Harrison CC: systemtap-ml , LKML Subject: [-mm][PATCH 0/6] (yet another) kprobes x86 code unification and boosters X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 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: 1241 Lines: 41 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 -- 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/