linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 3.1.0-rc4-tip 4/26] uprobes: Define hooks for mmap/munmap.

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Message-ID: <1317123755.15383.39.camel@twins>
Date:	Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:42:34 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jim Keniston <jkenisto@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...k.frob.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3.1.0-rc4-tip 4/26]   uprobes: Define hooks for
 mmap/munmap.

On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 21:14 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> > Isn't good enough? Also, returning an rb_node just seems iffy.. 
> 
> yup this can be done. can you please elaborate on why passing back an
> rb_node is an issue? 

Just seems ugly to me, why return a pointer inside the object the
function name deals with.


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