Re: Immediate values

Ingo Molnar
2009-09-24T19:34:40Z

* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:

> I would like to get an official ACK or NAK for this patching technique
> from inside Intel, and preferrably from AMD as well. If it does work
> as described it would provide a very clean way to do one-shot
> alternative functions, which probably would be higher value than
> immediate data values.

Sounds tempting. Things like the CONFIG_SECURITY hookery could use it?

But ... since it's patched under stopmachine, is there any reason why
this wouldnt work?

Ingo