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On Mon, 2012-04-16 at 08:02 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> It really would be *much* better if you could parse the
> 'altinstructions' section. You already have a lot of ELF parsing code.
> 
altinstructions, altinstr_replacement, smp_locks, __jump_table,
parainstructions, __mcount_loc and maybe a few more.. and that doesn't
allow for kprobes.

But yeah, being able to grok some of that would be neat.