[RFC] [PATCH 2/7] x86 support for UBP

2010-01-11 Thread Srikar Dronamraju
x86 support for user breakpoint Infrastructure This patch provides x86 specific userspace breakpoint assistance implementation details. This patch requires x86: instruction decoder API patch. http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/1/459 Signed-off-by: Jim Keniston jkeni...@us.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Srikar

[RFC] [PATCH 3/7] Execution out of line (XOL)

2010-01-11 Thread Srikar Dronamraju
Execution out of line (XOL) Slot allocation mechanism for Execution Out of Line strategy in User space breakpointing Inftrastructure. (XOL) This patch provides slot allocation mechanism for execution out of line strategy for use with user space breakpoint infrastructure. This patch requires

[RFC] [PATCH 6/7] Uprobes Documentation

2010-01-11 Thread Srikar Dronamraju
Uprobes documentation Signed-off-by: Jim Keniston jkeni...@us.ibm.com --- Documentation/uprobes.txt | 460 ++ 1 file changed, 460 insertions(+) Index: new_uprobes.git/Documentation/uprobes.txt

Re: powerpc: step-jump-cont failure (Was: [PATCH] utrace: don't set -ops = utrace_detached_ops lockless)

2010-01-11 Thread CAI Qian
Thanks for pointing out. Sorry for the false alarm.

Re: [RFC] [PATCH 7/7] Ftrace plugin for Uprobes

2010-01-11 Thread Frederic Weisbecker
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 05:56:08PM +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote: This patch implements ftrace plugin for uprobes. Description: Ftrace plugin provides an interface to dump data at a given address, top of the stack and function arguments when a user program calls a specific function. So,