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    SubjectRe: [RFC] [PATCH 3/7] Execution out of line (XOL)
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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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