------- Comment From naveen.n....@in.ibm.com 2017-01-03 08:37 EDT------- The latest version has been posted here: https://marc.info/?l=linuxppc-embedded&m=148215354725740&w=2
It has been acked by the Kprobes maintainer and is awaiting powerpc maintainer review. We expect this to land in kernel v4.11. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1585741 Title: [ubuntu 16.10] Enable OPTPROBES for powerpc Status in linux package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in linux source package in Yakkety: Won't Fix Status in linux source package in Zesty: In Progress Bug description: This is a feature request for Ubuntu 16.10: Optimized kprobes support for powerpc : This feauture aims to enhance the performance of kprobes. Currently, whenever a probe is placed in the kernel using the kprobes infrastructure, it places a trap instruction at that place. This feature will replace the trap with a branch thereby reducing the probe overhead drastically. Patches to enable this are being sent : https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/5/17/513 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1585741/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
