Re: [PATCH 1/3] uprobes/core: Remove redundant lock_page/unlock_page

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu May 31 2012 - 07:58:54 EST


On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 17:16 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> From: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> No need to lock the page when copying the opcode in read_opcode().

It would be good if the changelog said _why_ this is so :-)

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