From: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>,
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/14] mm: Move replace_page to mm/memory.c
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:30:01 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100615040001.GD13800@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100614174441.GC23754@infradead.org>
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 01:58:18PM +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> > move_replace_page.patch
> >
> > From: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >
> > Move replace_page() and write_protect_page() to mm/memory.c
> >
> > User bkpt will use background page replacement approach to insert/delete
> > breakpoints. Background page replacement approach will be based on
> > replace_page and write_protect_page.
> > Now replace_page() loses its static attribute.
>
> Neither of these actually gets used in this series. So you can drop
> the patch for now.
replace_page() and write_protect_page() are used in write_opcode() to
insert/remove a breakpoint in the user-space breakpoint insertion layer.
i.e "[PATCH v5 3/14] User Space Breakpoint Assistance Layer"
Even if we merge uprobes and user_bkpt layers, we would still need
write_opcode function while inserting/deleting a breakpoint.
--
Thanks and Regards
Srikar
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-15 4:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-14 8:27 [PATCH v5 0/14] Uprobes v5 Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-14 8:28 ` [PATCH v5 1/14] X86 instruction analysis: Move Macro W to insn.h Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-14 17:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-15 6:32 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-14 8:28 ` [PATCH v5 2/14] mm: Move replace_page to mm/memory.c Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-14 17:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-15 4:00 ` Srikar Dronamraju [this message]
2010-06-15 6:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-14 8:28 ` [PATCH v5 3/14] User Space Breakpoint Assistance Layer Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-14 17:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-21 14:20 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-06-14 17:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-15 11:27 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-21 13:59 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-06-22 5:44 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-14 8:28 ` [PATCH v5 4/14] x86 support for User space breakpoint assistance Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-14 8:28 ` [PATCH v5 5/14] Slot allocation for execution out of line (XOL) Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-14 17:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-16 7:06 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-14 8:29 ` [PATCH v5 6/14] Uprobes Implementation Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-14 14:27 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-06-15 11:30 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-14 8:29 ` [PATCH v5 7/14] x86 support for Uprobes Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-14 17:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-15 6:23 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-15 11:51 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-15 12:15 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-15 13:15 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-21 14:12 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-06-14 8:29 ` [PATCH v5 8/14] samples: Uprobes samples Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-14 17:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-14 8:29 ` [PATCH v5 9/14] Uprobes documentation Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-14 8:29 ` [PATCH v5 10/14] trace: Common code for kprobes/uprobes traceevents Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-15 4:13 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2010-06-21 14:18 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-06-22 5:46 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-14 8:30 ` [PATCH v5 11/14] trace: uprobes trace_event interface Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-21 14:22 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-06-22 4:15 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-22 6:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-14 8:30 ` [PATCH v5 12/14] perf: Dont adjust symbols on name lookup Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-14 8:30 ` [PATCH v5 13/14] perf: Re-Add make_absolute_path Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-14 8:30 ` [PATCH v5 14/14] perf: perf interface for uprobes Srikar Dronamraju
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