From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756056AbbGTNl3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jul 2015 09:41:29 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:51947 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752851AbbGTNl2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jul 2015 09:41:28 -0400 Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 08:41:03 -0500 From: Segher Boessenkool To: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Cc: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com, mpe@ellerman.id.au, mingo@kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 2/2] kprobes: Mark OPTPROBES na for powerpc Message-ID: <20150720134103.GA9691@gate.crashing.org> References: <20150720105349.24801.64387.stgit@thinktux.in.ibm.com> <20150720105417.24801.66440.stgit@thinktux.in.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150720105417.24801.66440.stgit@thinktux.in.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 04:24:22PM +0530, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote: > There is a potential gain to be had with a direct > jump instead of a breakpoint, but the caveats need to be traded off > with the complexity it brings in. > > For now, mark OPTPROBES na for powerpc. If we haven't yet investigated whether this feature is something beneficial to the powerpc kernel, it should just stay as TODO, not be marked as n/a. Segher