linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86: fix text

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Date:	Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:51:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
cc:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, zdenek.kabelac@...il.com,
	rjw@...k.pl, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
	penberg@...helsinki.fi, clameter@....com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, pageexec@...email.hu,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86: fix text_poke



On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> Yes, that should work.  It's still ugly, and I have to say I find the
> complexity rather distasteful.  I am willing to be convinced it's worth it,
> but I would really like to see hard numbers.

I really cannot imagine that this kind of pain is *ever* worth it. 

Please give an example of something so important that we'd want to do 
complex code rewriting on the fly. What _is_ the point of imv_cond()?

		Linus
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