linux-kernel - Re: Re: [PATCH v10 3.3-rc2 1/9] uprobes: Install and remove breakpoints.

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Date:	Thu, 9 Feb 2012 08:53:57 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...k.frob.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>,
	Anton Arapov <anton@...hat.com>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>,
	Jim Keniston <jkenisto@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	yrl.pp-manager.tt@...achi.com
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH v10 3.3-rc2 1/9] uprobes: Install and remove
 breakpoints.


* Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> 	/* Clear REX.b bit (extension of MODRM.rm field):
> 	 * we want to encode rax/rcx, not r8/r9.
> 	 */

Small stylistic nit, just saw this chunk fly by - the proper 
comment style is like this one:

> 	/*
> 	 * Point cursor at the modrm byte.  The next 4 bytes are the
> 	 * displacement.  Beyond the displacement, for some instructions,
> 	 * is the immediate operand.
> 	 */

Thanks,

	Ingo
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