linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add a text

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Message-ID: <52966C0A.7070201@zytor.com>
Date:	Wed, 27 Nov 2013 14:02:50 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
CC:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a text_poke syscall v2

For the record, this is the entire patch necessary to do the
sync_cores() system call -- and no potential interactions with security
frameworks or whatnot, simply because no security-sensitive operations
are performed of any kind.

Comments/opinions appreciated.

	-hpa

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