Re: [PATCH v4 3.0-rc2-tip 2/22] 2: uprobes: Breakground page replacement.

Peter Zijlstra
2011-06-09T23:00:03Z

On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 18:28 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> +static void print_insert_fail(struct task_struct *tsk,
> + unsigned long vaddr, const char *why)
> +{
> + pr_warn_once("Can't place breakpoint at pid %d vaddr" " %#lx: %s\n",
> + tsk->pid, vaddr, why);
> +}

Why would we ever want to print this instead of simply failing the
operation and returning an error code to userspace?