Re: [PATCH v7 3.2-rc2 9/30] uprobes: Background page replacement.

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Nov 28 2011 - 10:01:45 EST


On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 16:38 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
>
> Provides Background page replacement by
> - cow the page that needs replacement.
> - modify a copy of the cowed page.
> - replace the cow page with the modified page
> - flush the page tables.
>
> Also provides additional routines to read an opcode from a given virtual
> address and for verifying if a instruction is a breakpoint instruction.

You again/still lost the reason why we duplicate bits of mm/ksm.c here.
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