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Message-Id: <1186943243.2854.17.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date:	Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:27:23 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/8] Immediate Values


On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 11:07 -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> Here is the latest version of immediate values. It applies on 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 in
> this order:


I have a concern; you seem to be patching potentially "live" code....

there are basically two options
1) you run the risk of triple faulting (patching an instruction while
some other core/cpu may be decoding it may cause a triple fault)
2) you do an IPI to all other cpus and prevent them from executing any
code except a small loop during the patching... this is expensive.

To be honest, neither sound very attractive to me ;(


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