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

[Jim Keniston]

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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