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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86: fix text_poke
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> You do, when you decide to stop tracing. He is not talking about the old
> function, that one, indeed will always be there, but what about the new
> one? When tracing stops we want to remove it and revert to using the old
> one...
>
> But perhaps you are suggesting that the new one, once loaded, stays
> there forever, that would work, but after several tracing sessions one
> would have to eventually reboot the machine due to many modules left
> loaded.

As I said, it doesn't seem like a very satisfactory way to solve the 
problem.

    J