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 with user space breakpoint infrastructure. > This patch requires utrace support in kernel. > > This patch provides five functions xol_get_insn_slot(), > xol_free_insn_slot(), xol_put_area(), xol_get_area() and > xol_validate_vaddr(). > > Current slot allocation mechanism: > 1. Allocate one dedicated slot per user breakpoint. > 2. If the allocated vma is completely used, expand current vma. > 3. If we cant expand the vma, allocate a new vma.
Say what? I see the text, but non of it makes any sense at all.
