Re: [PATCH] Embed struct utrace in task_struct - V2

2009-03-06 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
Hi - On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 03:14:01PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote: * When we on the team think the utrace patch is ready to post, we need to do a coordinated post of Frank's ftrace widget. [...] Would you consider simply merging it into your git tree / patch suite? Sure. The

Re: [PATCH] Embed struct utrace in task_struct - V2

2009-03-06 Thread Roland McGrath
http://web.elastic.org/~fche/git/linux-2.6-utrace.git utrace-ftrace Frank Ch. Eigler (1): utrace-based ftrace process engine, v2 Thanks, Frank. Your branch is now in my repo and its patch generated in 2.6-current/. I'll pull periodically, or let me know if my repo lags behind yours

Re: [PATCH] Embed struct utrace in task_struct - V2

2009-03-05 Thread Roland McGrath
There is at least one change from the earlier behaviour -- rather than utrace_attach_task() retrying by itself on a !parent attach, -EAGAIN is returned to the user. That may need changes to the utrace client side. Oops, that was not intentional. I've restored the old behavior. I've just

Re: [PATCH] Embed struct utrace in task_struct - V2

2009-03-05 Thread Jason Baron
Roland McGrath roland at redhat.com writes: Hi, Ananth. Sorry everything has slid so long (again). (I have far too many hats and the past month not so many brains!) Here is my immediate agenda for utrace hacking: * I have incorporated the embed struct utrace changes. I did various

Re: [PATCH] Embed struct utrace in task_struct - V2

2009-03-05 Thread Roland McGrath
i've been looking at the patch at the utrace.patch at: http://people.redhat.com/roland/utrace/2.6-current/ hopefully, that's the latest one. Yes, it's updated frequently. The .id files tell you what git commit the patch corresponds to, so we can be mutually clear in making references.

Re: [PATCH] Embed struct utrace in task_struct - V2

2009-02-22 Thread Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:58:25AM +0530, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 03:20:31PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote: Thanks for working on this, Ananth. (Btw, it's embed.) I think it would be less disruptive (and materially no different) to leave utrace_flags as