From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755014Ab3LCUiY (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Dec 2013 15:38:24 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:58699 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754702Ab3LCUiX (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Dec 2013 15:38:23 -0500 Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 21:38:26 +0100 From: Oleg Nesterov To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Linus Torvalds , Hugh Dickins , Peter Zijlstra , Jiri Kosina , Andi Kleen , Linux Kernel Mailing List , the arch/x86 maintainers , Andi Kleen , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov Subject: Re: [PATCH?] uprobes: change uprobe_write_opcode() to modify the page directly Message-ID: <20131203203826.GA24812@redhat.com> References: <20131129183558.GA9803@redhat.com> <20131129195419.GB17656@two.firstfloor.org> <20131129200532.GA13561@redhat.com> <20131203184909.GA17571@redhat.com> <529E2F0C.8070405@zytor.com> <20131203200147.GB19083@redhat.com> <529E3D4C.9070403@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <529E3D4C.9070403@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/03, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > On 12/03/2013 12:01 PM, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > > >> followed by whatever synchronization necessary to make it globally visible. > > > > Could you explain what this synchronization should actually do ? > > > > That is architecture-dependent. On x86 it requires each CPU on which > this code is visible to be IPId, on others it involves complex icache > flushing protocols. Hmm. And why this would be better than arch-independent code I sent? IOW. Could you please comment the patch I sent? Oleg.