linux-kernel - Re: [tip: x86/core] x86/alternative: Patch a single alternative location only once

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Message-ID: <ff687fb4-56b3-49ee-bf9e-7bf5442cc64b@suse.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:26:07 +0200
From: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [tip: x86/core] x86/alternative: Patch a single alternative
 location only once

On 14.10.25 16:18, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 04:13:11PM +0200, Jürgen Groß wrote:
> 
>> Could take some time, vacation is coming up...
> 
> Enjoy! This patch has meanwhile gone away.
> 

I'm not sure the "x86/alternative: Refactor apply_alternatives()"
patch will stay the way it is now. Maybe better to remove it, too.

"x86/alternative: Drop not needed test after call of alt_replace_call()"
won't be changed, so it can be kept IMHO.


Juergen

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