From: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>,
Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>,
Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] uprobes/core: Remove redundant lock_page/unlock_page
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 22:28:10 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120531165810.GE24279@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1338483372.28384.65.camel@twins>
* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> [2012-05-31 18:56:12]:
> On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 20:37 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> > * Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> [2012-05-31 13:58:38]:
> >
> > > On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 17:16 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> > > > From: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > > >
> > > > No need to lock the page when copying the opcode in read_opcode().
> > >
> > > It would be good if the changelog said _why_ this is so :-)
> >
> > In read_opcode(), we have the reference for the page and we only are reading
> > from the the page. i.e we are neither modifying the page contents, not
> > the page attributes.
>
> Fair enough, so put that in the changelog. The changelog should explain
> things, not raise questions.
>
Okay, will add this info to the Changelog and resend the patch.
--
Thanks and Regards
Srikar
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-31 17:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-31 11:46 [PATCH 1/3] uprobes/core: Remove redundant lock_page/unlock_page Srikar Dronamraju
2012-05-31 11:46 ` [PATCH 2/3] perf/uprobes: Remove unnecessary check before strlist__delete Srikar Dronamraju
2012-06-06 7:08 ` [tip:perf/urgent] perf uprobes: " tip-bot for Srikar Dronamraju
2012-05-31 11:46 ` [PATCH 3/3] perf: Check for valid dso before creating map Srikar Dronamraju
2012-06-06 7:07 ` [tip:perf/urgent] perf symbols: " tip-bot for Srikar Dronamraju
2012-05-31 11:58 ` [PATCH 1/3] uprobes/core: Remove redundant lock_page/unlock_page Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-31 14:22 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-05-31 15:07 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2012-05-31 16:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-31 16:58 ` Srikar Dronamraju [this message]
2012-06-01 9:19 ` [RESEND PATCH 1/3] uprobes: " Srikar Dronamraju
2012-06-01 18:52 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-06-06 9:18 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-06-06 9:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-08-06 11:57 ` Anton Arapov
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