Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756787Ab0AOJIM (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:08:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756281Ab0AOJIL (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:08:11 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:37882 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754206Ab0AOJIJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:08:09 -0500 Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 3/7] Execution out of line (XOL) From: Peter Zijlstra To: Jim Keniston Cc: Srikar Dronamraju , Ingo Molnar , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli , utrace-devel , Frederic Weisbecker , Masami Hiramatsu , Maneesh Soni , Mark Wielaard , LKML In-Reply-To: <1263508997.4875.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20100111122521.22050.3654.sendpatchset@srikar.in.ibm.com> <20100111122545.22050.64994.sendpatchset@srikar.in.ibm.com> <1263467318.4244.289.camel@laptop> <1263508997.4875.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:07:35 +0100 Message-ID: <1263546455.4244.348.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 14:43 -0800, Jim Keniston wrote: > > Yeah, there's not a lot of context there. I hope it will make more > sense if you read section 1.1 of Documentation/uprobes.txt (patch #6). > Or look at get_insn_slot() in kprobes, and understand that we're trying > to do something similar in uprobes, where the instruction copies have to > reside in the user address space of the probed process. That's not the point, changelogs shoulnd not be this cryptic. They should be stand alone and descriptive of what, why and how. If you can't be bothered writing such for something you want reviewed for inclusion then I might not be bothered looking at them at all. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/