Re: [PATCH -tip v11 00/27] kprobes: Fix stacktrace with kretprobes on x86

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri, 1 Oct 2021 08:27:33 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Let me explain how the patches are usually merged.
> 
> - kernel/kprobes.c related patches go through the tip tree.
> - kernel/trace/* patches go through the tracing tree.

And arch/*/kprobe* usually goes through tip as well.

> 
> So traditionally(?) I think this series go through the tip tree,
> but since the biggest user of kprobes is tracing and the kprobes fix
> now involves tree-wide fixes as you can see in this series, I think
> it is a good timing to move kprobes to tracing tree.

I'll pick it up and take the burden off of Thomas.

Just to confirm, this is for the next merge window, right?

-- Steve