Re: [PATCH v4 3.0-rc2-tip 2/22] 2: uprobes: Breakground pagereplacement.

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 18:28 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> +static void print_insert_fail(struct task_struct *tsk,
> +                       unsigned long vaddr, const char *why)
> +{
> +       pr_warn_once("Can't place breakpoint at pid %d vaddr" " %#lx: %s\n",
> +                       tsk->pid, vaddr, why);
> +} 

Why would we ever want to print this instead of simply failing the
operation and returning an error code to userspace?

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