From: pritambankar1988@gmail.com (Pritam Bankar)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: What is use of apply_alternative function from alternative.c
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 14:27:15 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAE6Wm-vUH+0MSQb1-rQy00jaGvKoMoGCEwUPF3RAvNPKwXeHEQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCg9D82YC=McjwdBHVdSVLrAojcsCuV5R7o=ScpZ8dHxi7xXQ@mail.gmail.com>
Thanks Andrew , Jim
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Andrew Case <atcuno@gmail.com> wrote:
> The feature is called SMP alternatives. See if this articles helps
> you: http://lwn.net/Articles/164121/
>
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Pritam Bankar
> <pritambankar1988@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Cal anyone help me in understanding alternative.c file from Linux source
> > code.
> > I want to learn function apply_alternative. AFAIK this code applies
> better
> > replacement to instruction set used by processor.
> > But I am not sure what exactly it is doing ?
> >
> > --
> >
> > Pritam Bankar
> >
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Pritam Bankar
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2012-03-20 13:54 What is use of apply_alternative function from alternative.c Pritam Bankar
2012-03-26 4:42 ` Jim Cromie
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2012-04-02 8:57 ` Pritam Bankar [this message]
2012-04-02 9:01 ` Pritam Bankar
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