Re: [PATCH -tip 0/3] kprobes, x86: Move optprobe on top of int3-basedinstruction patching

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Thu Jul 18 2013 - 18:25:02 EST


On Thu, 18 Jul 2013, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Here is a series of kprobes and x86 patches for moving
> optprobe (jump optimized kprobe) onto the int3-based
> instruction patching (a.k.a. text_poke_bp, introduced by
> Jiri Kosina).
>
> Since this completely moves text_poke_smp* user to new
> text_poke_bp, I also remove the old text_poke_smp* code
> from alternative.c. As a side effect, it also fixes a
> Kconfig warning about CONFIG_STOP_MACHINE dependency
> confliction.
>
> Thank you,
>
> ---
>
> Masami Hiramatsu (3):
> [CLEANUP] kprobes/x86: Remove an incorrect comment about int3 in NMI/MCE
> kprobes/x86: Use text_poke_bp() instead of text_poke_smp*()
> x86: Remove unused text_poke_smp and text_poke_smp_batch

Nice.

Reviewed-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>

Thanks.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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