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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] arm64: implement KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
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On Tue, 20 Aug 2019, Jisheng Zhang wrote:

> KPROBES_ON_FTRACE avoids much of the overhead with regular kprobes as it
> eliminates the need for a trap, as well as the need to emulate or
> single-step instructions.
> 
> This patch implements KPROBES_ON_FTRACE for arm64.

 git grep 'This patch' Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
 
Thanks,

	tglx