The second patch ptrace: do not use task_lock() for attach has nothing
to do with utrace, and it is really pure ptrace cleanup.
Indeed.
But it can't be applied to -mm tree, because it (textually) conficts with
utrace changes in ptrace_attach().
Oh, -mm. I had not thought about the -mm
Staging the utrace patch at end-of-series would make sense if utrace is
not on track for a 2.6.31 merge.
And afaict, this is indeed the case - things seem to have gone a bit
quiet on the utrace front lately.
I don't think that is really accurate. There has been a lack of any
reviewer
Shouldn't be applied without Roland's ack.
I just don't know how to merge the second patch properly. I think it would be
really nice to cleanup ptrace attach before ptracee data structures cleanup,
but this depends on utrace-core.patch which adds exclude_ptrace().
With the first patch, the
