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Re: [PATCH]Kprobes: fix kprobes reentrancy
- From: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil dot s dot keshavamurthy at intel dot com>
- To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil dot s dot keshavamurthy at intel dot com>, Systemtap <systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 21:30:46 -0700
- Subject: Re: [PATCH]Kprobes: fix kprobes reentrancy
- References: <20061212222517.GA17627@bambi.jf.intel.com> <y0mwt10klgn.fsf@ton.toronto.redhat.com> <y0modkwoxlv.fsf@ton.toronto.redhat.com>
- Reply-to: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil dot s dot keshavamurthy at intel dot com>
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 10:30:52PM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
>
> > > [PATCH]Kprobes: fix kprobes reentrancy
> > > From: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
> > > Date: 2006-12-12
> >
> > This patch still hasn't made it upstream. Can someone nag akpm etc.?
>
> Can someone advise whether this patch is still worthwhile to push
> upstream and/or backport into RHEL?
This patch is not required for i386 and x86_64(as interrupts are
disabled when int3 exception handler is called) but requied for
IA64 and for powerpc.
>
> http://sourceware.org/ml/systemtap/2006-q4/msg00659.html
I will refresh this patch for ia64 and work with Ananth for getting powerpc
patch worked out and will post the patch before end of this week.
-Anil