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

2010-01-15 Thread Srikar Dronamraju
* Peter Zijlstra pet...@infradead.org [2010-01-15 10:07:35]: On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 14:43 -0800, Jim Keniston wrote: Yeah, there's not a lot of context there. I hope it will make more sense if you read section 1.1 of Documentation/uprobes.txt (patch #6). Or look at get_insn_slot() in

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

2010-01-15 Thread Jim Keniston
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 10:07 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 14:43 -0800, Jim Keniston wrote: Yeah, there's not a lot of context there. I hope it will make more sense if you read section 1.1 of Documentation/uprobes.txt (patch #6). Or look at get_insn_slot() in

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

2010-01-14 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 17:55 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote: 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

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

2010-01-14 Thread Jim Keniston
On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 12:08 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 17:55 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote: Execution out of line (XOL) Slot allocation mechanism for Execution Out of Line strategy in User space breakpointing Inftrastructure. (XOL) This patch provides slot