[RFC 2/8] ARM64: Refactor kprobes-arm64

Pratyush Anand panand at redhat.com
Thu Jan 8 09:39:03 PST 2015



On Thursday 08 January 2015 11:06 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 05:33:08PM +0000, Pratyush Anand wrote:
>> On Thursday 08 January 2015 10:25 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
>>> On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 03:21:18PM +0000, Pratyush Anand wrote:
>>>> Most of the stuff of kprobes-arm64.c can also be used by uprobes.c. So
>>>> move all those part to common code area. In the process rename kprobe to
>>>> probe whereever possible.
>>>>
>>>> No functional change.
>>>
>>> In which case, can you merge this into the kprobes series (which we haven't
>>> merged yet)?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, thats why these are just RFCs. I will send next version of uprobe
>> only after kprobe patches are accepted into maintainer's tree.
>
> Ok, but it also makes sense to make kprobes refactoring changes *before* the
> patches are merged, as that reduces churn in mainline whilst you don't have
> any other dependencies.
>

Sure, Sure.. I too expect first two patches to be merged with kprobe 
series. I just did that to develop my uprobe code.

~Pratyush

> Will
>



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