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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] kprobes/x86: use instruction_pointer and
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On Tue, 20 Aug 2019, Jisheng Zhang wrote:

> This is to make the x86 kprobe_ftrace_handler() more common so that
> the code could be reused in future.

While I agree with the change in general, I can't find anything which
reuses that code. So the change log is pretty useless and I have no idea
how this is related to the rest of the series.

Thanks,

	tglx