On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:16:34PM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote:
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 06:07:44PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Temporary revert the following patches to keep utrace/utrace-ptrace working:
>
> <huge list of patches here>
>
> This obviously reverts some user-visible fixes, but the fixed problems
> are very old and minor, they were never reported. In the long term we
> need another solution.
Dude, that's just not acceptable, that's way too much offset to deal with
against upstream, especially since it's looking like uprobes will get
merged in 3.1... (at least, a lot of the comments seem to have been
well-addressed on linux-mm.)
I have still yet to see a justification why we want to continue carrying utrace
in Fedora at all. And "We want it in RHEL" isn't a good enough answer.
It's been FIVE years that we carried that thing without it getting upstream.
What benefit is there in continuing to carry this thing at all ?
Utrace has been an absolute disaster from a merging standpoint.
Even Xen didn't take this long to get upstream.
Dave