Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:58:03 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch] x86, ptrace: support pebs in ds.c and disable ptraceand ds support |
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* Metzger, Markus T <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> wrote:
> > we could apply this if Roland Acks it - but i guess a precondition > > for that is to not include more ptrace extensions and to also start > > working on utrace support for it. Ptrace is something we want to > > reduce usage of, not extend. > > The patch is not adding new features. It is merely re-establishing the > state before the patch mysteriously disappeared from x86#testing.
well, Roland is the de-facto ptrace maintainer and he has NAK-ed the current approach of extending ptrace, so i removed the patch. Is there anything particularly wrong about doing this based on utrace? The API will hit upstream in 2.6.26 or 2.6.27.
Ingo
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