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Message-ID: <18307.64807.204087.375733@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 09:45:59 +1100
From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
To: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...hat.com>,
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>,
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, hskinnemoen@...el.com,
schwidefsky@...ibm.com, heiko.carstens@...ibm.com,
tony.luck@...el.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] kprobes: Introduce is_kprobe_fault()
Harvey Harrison writes:
> Use a central is_kprobe_fault() inline in kprobes.h to remove all
> of the arch-dependant, practically identical implementations in
> avr32, ia64, powerpc, s390, sparc64, and x86.
I don't like the name "is_kprobe_fault" since the function actually
handles the fault - i.e. it does more than just tell the caller
whether this is a kprobes fault. Something like
"handle_kprobes_fault" or "maybe_handle_kprobes_fault" would be
better IMO.
Paul.
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