On Saturday 11 August 2007 00:00:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > x86(-64) are the last architectures still using the page fault notifier > cruft for the kprobes page fault hook. This patch converts them to the > proper direct calls, and removes the now unused pagefault notifier bits > aswell as the cruft in kprobes.c that was related to this mess. > > I know Andi didn't really like this, but all other architecture maintainers > agreed the direct calls are much better and besides the obvious cruft > removal a common way of dealing with kprobes across architectures is > important aswell.
This means the debuggers just have to readd it. Not merged. If you worry about cycles notifiers could be probably optimized a bit for the nothing registered case. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
