linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] ftrace: to kill a daemon

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0808091024110.25265@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Date:	Sat, 9 Aug 2008 10:25:22 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>
cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	"Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" <lclaudio@...g.org>,
	Clark Williams <williams@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] ftrace: to kill a daemon



On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > 
> > Did you try short jumps? (0xeb 0x03 0x?? 0x?? 0x??)
> 
> What would those last three bytes be?

Ah, I see, you jump 3 bytes forward.

I'm pretty sure that it is still more expensive than a nop, on some archs.
But I'm not 100% sure on that.

-- Steve

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