From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: linux arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: Do we use runtime patching of function calls somewhere?
Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 08:29:35 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120513142935.GC18390@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120513121600.GA15708@merkur.ravnborg.org>
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 02:16:00PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Do we have any archs that does runtime patching of function calls?
Isn't this a slightly easier version of the x86 altinstructions mechanism?
--
Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-13 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-13 12:16 Do we use runtime patching of function calls somewhere? Sam Ravnborg
2012-05-13 14:29 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2012-05-13 18:28 ` David Miller
2012-05-13 17:44 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-05-13 18:32 ` David Miller
2012-05-13 18:45 ` Sam Ravnborg
2012-05-13 20:01 ` David Miller
2012-05-14 16:56 ` Sam Ravnborg
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