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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: patches@x86-64.org, Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"S. P. Prasanna" <prasanna@in.ibm.com>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Subject: Re: [patches] new text patching for review
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:08:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <469FD2D7.1010808@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200707192306.20625.ak@suse.de>

Andi Kleen wrote:
> Either not use any pvops or make sure all the pvops patching is atomic
> on the local CPU.
>   

Erk, not really keen on that.  Sounds complicated, unless there's a nice
general algorithm.

> Ok you can avoid MCEs by not enabling them until after you patch (which I think
> is the case currently), but it's more difficult with NMIs.
>
> The plain NMI handler is probably auditable.
> Or set a flag that makes the NMI handler just return during patching?
>   

I think that's probably the simplest, if nobody will miss it.

    J

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-19 21:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-19  9:05 new text patching for review Andi Kleen
2007-07-19 13:38 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-07-19 13:46   ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-19 17:35     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-07-19 21:14       ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-19 20:30         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-19 20:46           ` [patches] " Andi Kleen
2007-07-19 20:51             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-19 21:06               ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-19 21:08                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2007-07-19 23:53             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-08-20  0:55             ` Non atomic unaligned writes Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-08-20  5:03               ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-08-20 10:23               ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-19 23:51           ` new text patching for review Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-07-19 23:49         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-07-20  1:15           ` Zachary Amsden
2007-07-20  7:37             ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-20 15:17             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-07-21  6:19               ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-20  8:28           ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-20 14:36             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-07-20  0:37 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-07-20  8:23   ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-10 19:00 ` Mathieu Desnoyers

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