Re: [PATCH -tip 0/3] x86/kprobes: Remoev single-step trap from x86 kprobes

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Wed Mar 17 2021 - 13:46:05 EST


On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 9:27 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 11:55:22PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> > Hi Andy,
> >
> > Would you think you still need this series to remove iret to kernel?
>
> They're an improvement anyway, let me queue them so that they don't get
> lost.
>
> I'll line them up for tip/x86/core unless anybody else thinks of a
> better place for them and tells me in time ;-)

I agree. The new code is quite nice. I'm still not quite sure what
I'm doing with IRET, but thank you very much for the kprobe
improvements.