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Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:05:00 -0000
From: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
To: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>,         Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>,         "bibo,mao" <bibo.mao@intel.com>,         Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>,         Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,         linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,         SystemTAP <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>,         Yumiko Sugita <yumiko.sugita.yf@hitachi.com>,         Satoshi Oshima <soshima@redhat.com>, Hideo Aoki <haoki@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][kprobe] enabling booster on the preemptible kernel
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On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 09:35:15PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Hi Anil,
> Could you give me your Ack for this patch?
Sure, the patch looks good.

> 
> 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>
Acked-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>

Andrew,
 Please include this patch in mm.

Thanks,
Anil