On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 22:19 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > Ingo, > > This patch series extends ftrace function tracing utility to be > more dynamic for its users. It allows for data passing to the callback > functions, as well as reading regs as if a breakpoint were to trigger > at function entry. > > The main goal of this patch series was to allow kprobes to use ftrace > as an optimized probe point when a probe is placed on an ftrace nop. > With lots of help from Masami Hiramatsu, and going through lots of > iterations, we finally came up with a good solution. > > I've tested it vigorously (although, like always, there may be some > subtle bug), but I feel it is ready for inclussion for the 3.6 merge > window.
As the merge window opened the day after I sent this (which was also the same day I left for vacation :-p ), I recommend that this goes in v3.7. Can you pull this in for 3.7, or do you want me to post another pull request after the merge window closes? Thanks, -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
