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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/13] x86/alternative: Support indirect call replacement
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:52:10 -0800
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On 10/04/17 08:58, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> Add alternative patching support for replacing an instruction with an
> indirect call.  This will be needed for the paravirt alternatives.

I have a patchset that generalizes the alternatives in what I think is a
more robust way.  I really, really want to get rid of these hacks.  Let
me clean it up an post it...

	-hpa