On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 08:42 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli ana...@in.ibm.com wrote:
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 09:55:02AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
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Lets compare the two cases via a drawing. Your current uprobes submission
does:
[kernel] do
[ Added Arjan ]
On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 02:43 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
Right, so you're going to love uprobes, which does exactly that. The
current proposal is overwriting the target instruction with an INT3 and
injecting an extra vma into
On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 09:36 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Because I'm not interested in crazy
developers.
Linus
Uh oh, that's not good for us real-time folks.
http://lwn.net/Articles/357800/
And, according to Linus, the realtime people are crazy, so they can be
On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 10:12 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
But on the whole, I think it's actually worked out pretty well for them. I
think the mainline kernel has improved in the process, but I also suspect
that _their_ RT patches have also improved thanks to having to make the
work more
