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Date:	Fri, 11 Oct 2013 06:21:28 +0530
From:	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
Cc:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, Anton Arapov <anton@...hat.com>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] UPROBES: Remove useless __weak attribute

* Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org> [2013-10-09 14:08:09]:

> <linux/uprobes.h> declares arch_uprobe_skip_sstep() as a weak function.
> But as there is no definition of generic version so when trying to build
> uprobes for an architecture that doesn't yet have a arch_uprobe_skip_sstep()
> implementation, the vmlinux will try to call arch_uprobe_skip_sstep()
> somehwere in Stupidhistan leading to a system crash.  We rather want a
> proper link error so remove arch_uprobe_skip_sstep().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
> 

Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

Will be nice to have another arch(mips) support for uprobes. 

-- 
Thanks and Regards
Srikar Dronamraju

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