linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/5] uprobes: kill copy_vma()->uprobe

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Date:	Mon, 09 Jul 2012 10:35:57 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>,
	Anton Arapov <anton@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] uprobes: kill copy_vma()->uprobe_mmap()

On Sun, 2012-07-08 at 22:30 +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> And why this uprobe_mmap() was added? I believe the intent was wrong.
> Note that the caller is going to do move_page_tables(), all registered
> uprobes are already faulted in, we only change the virtual addresses.
> 

I think it was because of the copy_vma + do_munmap. Since do_munmap()
should be doing a put on the uprobe, we need an extra get to balance.

That said, I cannot actually find the uprobe_munmap() from do_munmap(),
but that might be due to lack of wakefulness etc..
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