Re: [PATCH] x86: fix typo(?) in step.c

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Mar 06 2008 - 06:28:55 EST



* Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The bogon came in commit eee3af4a2c83a97fff107ddc445d9df6fded9ce4, the
> introduction of the ptrace BTS stuff. Sorry I did not scour and cite
> every problem in that patch, since I had NAK'd the entire thing as
> needing more careful review and incremental introduction after 2.6.25.

note that in -rc4 all those BTS ptrace extensions are disabled, see:

| commit b4ef95de00be4c2c30feccf607a45093c8c118b7
| Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
| Date: Tue Feb 26 09:40:27 2008 +0100
|
| x86: disable BTS ptrace extensions for now

Ingo
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