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SubjectRe: [patch] x86, ptrace: support pebs in ds.c and disable ptraceand ds support

* 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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