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

From: Masami Hiramatsu
Date: Mon Nov 20 2006 - 19:44:57 EST


Hi Ingo,

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 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?

Right. Actually, I already integrated djprobe and kprobes.
I'll post it as soon as possible.

>
> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

Thank you.

--
Masami HIRAMATSU
Linux Technology Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Systems Development Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx


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