Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755078AbZCUXks (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:40:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754085AbZCUXkk (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:40:40 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:41155 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753648AbZCUXkj (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:40:39 -0400 Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:38:39 -0400 From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" To: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Roland McGrath , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Steven Rostedt , utrace-devel@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] utrace-based ftrace "process" engine, v2 Message-ID: <20090321233839.GB5157@redhat.com> References: <20090321091235.GA29678@elte.hu> <20090321041954.72b99e69.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090321115141.GA3566@redhat.com> <20090321050422.d1d99eec.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090321154501.GA2707@elte.hu> <20090321143413.75ead1aa.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090321215145.GB5262@redhat.com> <20090321222030.GA5157@redhat.com> <20090321223759.GA22770@x200.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090321223759.GA22770@x200.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 900 Lines: 24 Hi - On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 01:37:59AM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > [...] > struct task_struct::utrace became embedded struct. This is good and > should remove quite a few of utrace bugs. Better late than never. Yeah. > However, "rewrite-ptrace-via-utrace" patch was omitted, so almost > noone can easily see by how much situation improved. [...] Will > ptrace(2) will be rewritten through utrace? Yes, I believe that is Roland's intent. I believe it was separated from the current suite of patches for staging purposes, to merge the most solid code up first. The code is available from the utrace git tree in the utrace-ptrace branch. - FChE -- 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/