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Re: [PATCH] Documentation: kprobes: Document jprobes stack copying limitations

From David Long <dave.long@linaro.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] Documentation: kprobes: Document jprobes stack copying limitations
Date 2016-08-15 17:50 +0200
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On 08/15/2016 11:32 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 10:49:36 -0400
> David Long <dave.long@linaro.org> wrote:
>
>> On 08/15/2016 10:25 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>>> On Fri, 12 Aug 2016 16:24:44 -0400
>>> David Long <dave.long@linaro.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Some architectures (i.e.: sparc64 and arm64) make reasonable partial stack
>>>> duplication for jprobes problematic. Document this.
>>>
>>> Applied to the docs tree, thanks.
>>>
>>> jon
>>>
>>
>> Was kind of hoping to see an ack (or critique) from a sparc maintainer.
>
> So are you saying you don't want the patch applied at this point?
>
> jon
>


I think we can apply it.  It's not looking like we're going to get 
comments from a sparc/kprobes maintainer.  The need for this change was 
first addressed on the sparc email alias exactly one week ago, which is 
maybe long enough to wait.

Sorry for the trouble,
-dl

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[PATCH] Documentation: kprobes: Document jprobes stack copying limitations David Long <dave.long@linaro.org> - 2016-08-12 22:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] Documentation: kprobes: Document jprobes stack copying  limitations Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> - 2016-08-13 01:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] Documentation: kprobes: Document jprobes stack copying  limitations Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2016-08-15 16:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] Documentation: kprobes: Document jprobes stack copying  limitations David Long <dave.long@linaro.org> - 2016-08-15 16:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] Documentation: kprobes: Document jprobes stack copying  limitations Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2016-08-15 17:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] Documentation: kprobes: Document jprobes stack copying  limitations David Long <dave.long@linaro.org> - 2016-08-15 17:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] Documentation: kprobes: Document jprobes stack copying  limitations Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> - 2016-08-15 17:50 +0200

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