[PATCH v2 2.6.38-rc8-tip 3/20] 3: uprobes: Breakground page replacement.

Steven Rostedt rostedt@goodmis.org
Mon Mar 14 18:21:00 GMT 2011


On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 22:54 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> > 
> > I'm also curious to why we can't modify text code that is also mapped as
> > read/write.
> > 
> 
> If text code is mapped read/write then on memory pressure the page gets
> written to the disk. Hence breakpoints inserted may end up being in the
> disk copy modifying the actual copy.
> 
> 
OK, could you put a comment about that too.

Thanks,

-- Steve




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