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Re: [PATCH -tip v9 00/26] kprobes: introduce NOKPROBE_SYMBOL, bugfixes and scalbility efforts
- From: Masami Hiramatsu <masami dot hiramatsu dot pt at hitachi dot com>
- To: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel dot org>
- Cc: linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org, Andi Kleen <andi at firstfloor dot org>, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth at in dot ibm dot com>, Sandeepa Prabhu <sandeepa dot prabhu at linaro dot org>, Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec at gmail dot com>, x86 at kernel dot org, Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis dot org>, fche at redhat dot com, mingo at redhat dot com, systemtap at sourceware dot org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor dot com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix dot de>
- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 17:53:46 +0900
- Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip v9 00/26] kprobes: introduce NOKPROBE_SYMBOL, bugfixes and scalbility efforts
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(2014/04/17 17:37), Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> wrote:
>
>> Masami Hiramatsu (26):
>> [BUGFIX]kprobes/x86: Fix page-fault handling logic
>> kprobes/x86: Allow to handle reentered kprobe on singlestepping
>> kprobes: Prohibit probing on .entry.text code
>> kprobes: Introduce NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() macro for blacklist
>> [BUGFIX] kprobes/x86: Prohibit probing on debug_stack_*
>> [BUGFIX] x86: Prohibit probing on native_set_debugreg/load_idt
>> [BUGFIX] x86: Prohibit probing on thunk functions and restore
>
> Ok, the whole series is looking pretty good now.
>
> Can I apply the 4 bugfixes first, or do the last 3 bugfixes depend on
> the 3 non-bugfixes patches before them in any way?
Right, the last 3 bugfixes depends on NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(), so you can
apply only the first patch...
Thank you,
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ingo
>
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Masami HIRAMATSU
Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Research Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com