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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "Metzger, Markus T" <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Cc: ak@suse.de, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	tglx@linutronix.de, markus.t.metzger@gmail.com, "Siddha,
	Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
	roland@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	mtk.manpages@gmail.com, eranian@googlemail.com, "Villacis,
	Juan" <juan.villacis@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] x86, ptrace: support pebs in ds.c and disable ptraceand ds support
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:58:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080327095803.GB15003@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <029E5BE7F699594398CA44E3DDF55444019B5025@swsmsx413.ger.corp.intel.com>


* Metzger, Markus T <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> wrote:

> > we could apply this if Roland Acks it - but i guess a precondition 
> > for that is to not include more ptrace extensions and to also start 
> > working on utrace support for it. Ptrace is something we want to 
> > reduce usage of, not extend.
> 
> The patch is not adding new features. It is merely re-establishing the 
> state before the patch mysteriously disappeared from x86#testing.

well, Roland is the de-facto ptrace maintainer and he has NAK-ed the 
current approach of extending ptrace, so i removed the patch. Is there 
anything particularly wrong about doing this based on utrace? The API 
will hit upstream in 2.6.26 or 2.6.27.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-27  9:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-12 11:53 [patch] x86, ptrace: support pebs in ds.c and disable ptrace and " Markus Metzger
2008-03-21 12:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-21 13:18   ` stephane eranian
2008-03-26  9:16   ` [patch] x86, ptrace: support pebs in ds.c and disable ptraceand " Metzger, Markus T
2008-03-27  9:58     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-03-27 10:16       ` stephane eranian
2008-03-27 10:16       ` [patch] x86, ptrace: support pebs in ds.c and disableptraceand " Metzger, Markus T
2008-03-28 13:44         ` [question] utrace user api / branch trace support Metzger, Markus T
2008-04-01 16:20           ` Metzger, Markus T
2008-03-26  9:39   ` [patch] x86, ptrace: support pebs in ds.c and disable ptraceand ds support Metzger, Markus T

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