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
next prev parent 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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