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Subject: Re: [PATCH][kprobe] enabling booster on the preemptible kernel
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
To: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
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On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 21:35 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> From: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
> 
> This patch enables the kprobe-booster on the preemptible kernel.
> For this purpose, I introduced a kind of garbage collector of
> the instruction slots. This garbage collector checks safety before
> releasing the garbage slots.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> 

nice work - looks really sensible! This opens the door to djprobes (or
rather, to the transparent kprobes speedup that used to be a separate
interface), right?

 Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

	Ingo