Re: [RFC] [PATCH 2/6] Kprobes: Get one pagetable entry

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 12:31:06PM +0530, Prasanna S Panchamukhi wrote:
> This patch provide a wrapper routine to allocate one page
> table entry for a given virtual address address. Kprobe's
> user-space probe mechanism uses this routine to get one
> page table entry. As Nick Piggin suggested, this generic
> routine can be used by routines like get_user_pages,
> find_*_page, and other standard APIs.

In find_*_page it defintily cannot be used because theses routines
are doing pagecache lookups and couldn't care less about users.

If you want to get this patch in convert the places currently opencoding
to it, otherwise it just adds more bloat.

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