Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86: add kprobe-booster to X86_64

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Dec 18 2007 - 09:00:59 EST



* Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 12:29 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Sorry I missed an ifdef in this patch in the following hunk:
> >
> > could you resend your kprobes cleanups against current x86.git? They
> > have been conceptually acked by Masami. This cuts out the unification
> > part of your queue which is bad luck but the effort has been duplicated
> > already so there's not much we can do about it i guess.
> >
> > Your other 17 cleanup and unification patches are still queued up in
> > x86.git and passed a lot of testing, so they will likely go into
> > v2.6.25. Nice work!
> >
> > Ingo
>
> Ingo,
>
> I'd suggest just tossing my kprobes cleanups. I just sent you a rollup
> of anything I saw that was left in mine that was still worthwhile
> after Masami's, included below for reference. It didn't amount to much
> left so I rolled it all together:
>
> Subject: [PATCH] x86: kprobes leftover cleanups
>
> Eliminate __always_inline, all of these static functions are
> only called once. Minor whitespace cleanup. Eliminate one
> supefluous return at end of void function. Reverse sense of
> #ifndef to be #ifdef to show the case only affects X86_32.

thanks, i've applied them.

Ingo
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