Re: [PATCH][kprobe] enabling booster on the preemptible kernel

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Nov 17 2006 - 10:07:01 EST


On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 21:35 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> From: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patch enables the kprobe-booster on the preemptible kernel.
> For this purpose, I introduced a kind of garbage collector of
> the instruction slots. This garbage collector checks safety before
> releasing the garbage slots.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

nice work - looks really sensible! This opens the door to djprobes (or
rather, to the transparent kprobes speedup that used to be a separate
interface), right?

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

Ingo

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