[PATCH] Documentation: kprobes: Document jprobes stack copying limitations

David Long dave.long at linaro.org
Mon Aug 15 08:41:00 PDT 2016


On 08/15/2016 11:32 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 10:49:36 -0400
> David Long <dave.long at linaro.org> wrote:
>
>> On 08/15/2016 10:25 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>>> On Fri, 12 Aug 2016 16:24:44 -0400
>>> David Long <dave.long at linaro.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Some architectures (i.e.: sparc64 and arm64) make reasonable partial stack
>>>> duplication for jprobes problematic. Document this.
>>>
>>> Applied to the docs tree, thanks.
>>>
>>> jon
>>>
>>
>> Was kind of hoping to see an ack (or critique) from a sparc maintainer.
>
> So are you saying you don't want the patch applied at this point?
>
> jon
>


I think we can apply it.  It's not looking like we're going to get 
comments from a sparc/kprobes maintainer.  The need for this change was 
first addressed on the sparc email alias exactly one week ago, which is 
maybe long enough to wait.

Sorry for the trouble,
-dl




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