Re: [PATCH 0/1] (Was: cleanup DO_ERROR*() to prepare for uprobes fixes)

[David Long]

On 05/12/14 13:08, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 05/08, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > But let me send the initial changes first for review. If they pass the review
> > and if nobody objects, I'd like to route them along with the pending uprobes
> > fixes.
>
> OK, nobody cares ;)
>
> So I am going to ask Ingo to pull these changes plus the following minor fix.
>
> To remind, I think that traps.c needs more cleanups: do_general_protection()
> and math_error() should be converted into DO_ERROR(), DIE_GPF should die, and
> the users of show_unhandled_signals() should be unified/cleanuped.
>
> Ananth, David, this is x86 specific, but at first glance powerpc/arm might
> want to use uprobe_get_trap_addr() too.
>
> Oleg.

Thanks for the heads-up.  I currently have a preliminary patch to use 
the PC LSB to identify Thumb-mode instructions on ARM but I don't think 
this adds any new hinderances to that in the intended use case.

-dl

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/