Re: [PATCH 1/3] uprobes/core: Remove redundant lock_page/unlock_page

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Thu May 31 2012 - 10:23:06 EST


On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 13:58 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 17:16 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> > From: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > 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 :-)

I thought the same thing when I read it.

-- Steve


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