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From: Christoph Hellwig on 14 Jun 2010 13:50
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 01:58:18PM +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> move_replace_page.patch
>
> From: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> Move replace_page() and write_protect_page() to mm/memory.c
>
> User bkpt will use background page replacement approach to insert/delete
> breakpoints. Background page replacement approach will be based on
> replace_page and write_protect_page.
> Now replace_page() loses its static attribute.

Neither of these actually gets used in this series. So you can drop
the patch for now.

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From: Srikar Dronamraju on 15 Jun 2010 00:10
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 01:58:18PM +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> > move_replace_page.patch
> >
> > From: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >
> > Move replace_page() and write_protect_page() to mm/memory.c
> >
> > User bkpt will use background page replacement approach to insert/delete
> > breakpoints. Background page replacement approach will be based on
> > replace_page and write_protect_page.
> > Now replace_page() loses its static attribute.
>
> Neither of these actually gets used in this series. So you can drop
> the patch for now.

replace_page() and write_protect_page() are used in write_opcode() to
insert/remove a breakpoint in the user-space breakpoint insertion layer.
i.e "[PATCH v5 3/14] User Space Breakpoint Assistance Layer"

Even if we merge uprobes and user_bkpt layers, we would still need
write_opcode function while inserting/deleting a breakpoint.

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From: Christoph Hellwig on 15 Jun 2010 02:30
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 09:30:01AM +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> replace_page() and write_protect_page() are used in write_opcode() to
> insert/remove a breakpoint in the user-space breakpoint insertion layer.
> i.e "[PATCH v5 3/14] User Space Breakpoint Assistance Layer"

You're right. I did a git-grep, but that didn't find the newly added
files..

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