Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] [PATCH 3/7] Execution out of line (XOL) | From | Jim Keniston <> | Date | Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:18:51 -0800 |
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On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 10:07 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > 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.
Point taken.
> > 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. >
We appreciate your persistence wrt this patch set. :-}
Jim
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