Re: Re: [PATCH -tip/x86/jumplabel] x86: call out into int3 handlerdirectly instead of using notifier

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Jul 23 2013 - 03:45:22 EST



* Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> (2013/07/23 6:00), Jiri Kosina wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 Jul 2013, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >
> >> What is the baseline for this patch?
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > it's x86/jumplabel branch, as a followup to commit
> > fd4363fff3d96 ("x86: Introduce int3 (breakpoint)-based instruction
> > patching") sitting there.
>
> AFAICS, tip/master already merged Jiri's works on tip/x86/jumplabel.
> Thus both branches need this. (especially, since this is actual
> bugfix, it should go into tip/master.)

I resolved it yesterday by keeping the kprobes patches in perf/core - just
forgot to push it all out.

I've pushed it out now, so perf/core should be a baseline: it merges in
x86/jumplabel and then applies the kprobes patches (historically in
perf/core).

Thanks,

Ingo
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