From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a text_poke syscall v2
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 00:44:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131127234427.GD32119@two.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFx9mXy3VASfek5052GTbiUVSgBVsRwnF4cse1dc=z70HQ@mail.gmail.com>
One reason why I like having a syscall is that if there is some
CPU which needs additional workarounds here it could be all
done in a central place (I don't know of any that does right now
but traditionally it has been a bug intensive area)
> Hmm? It doesn't sound too bad. And I really don't see the point of
> some timeout handling or anything like that.
Sounds good to me. I'll work on it.
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-27 23:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-26 0:37 [PATCH] Add a text_poke syscall v2 Andi Kleen
2013-11-26 19:05 ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-11-26 19:11 ` Andi Kleen
2013-11-26 20:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-11-27 19:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-27 22:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-27 22:21 ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-11-27 22:21 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-11-27 22:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-27 22:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-27 22:29 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-11-27 22:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-27 23:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-11-27 23:13 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-11-27 22:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-27 23:10 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-11-27 23:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-27 23:40 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-11-27 23:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-27 22:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-11-27 22:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-27 23:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-11-27 23:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-28 2:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-11-28 2:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-28 9:12 ` Jiri Kosina
2013-11-27 23:44 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2013-11-29 18:35 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-29 19:54 ` Andi Kleen
2013-11-29 20:05 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-29 20:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-29 20:35 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-29 21:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-30 14:56 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-29 23:24 ` Jiri Kosina
2013-11-30 0:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-12-03 18:49 ` [PATCH?] uprobes: change uprobe_write_opcode() to modify the page directly Oleg Nesterov
2013-12-03 19:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-12-03 19:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-03 20:01 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-12-03 20:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-03 20:38 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-12-03 20:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-03 20:54 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-12-03 22:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-12-03 23:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-04 11:30 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-12-04 11:11 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-12-04 16:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-04 16:48 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-12-04 16:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-04 17:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-12-04 17:43 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-12-05 17:23 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-12-05 17:49 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-12-05 18:45 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-12-04 18:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-05 8:28 ` Jon Medhurst (Tixy)
2013-12-03 22:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-03 19:53 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-30 15:20 ` [PATCH] Add a text_poke syscall v2 Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-30 16:51 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-30 17:31 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-30 5:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-30 14:52 ` Oleg Nesterov
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