Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86: fix text_poke

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Fri Apr 25 2008 - 11:43:21 EST


> - if it's naturally aligned, it couldn't be page crossing ANYWAY
> - and if it was a page-crosser, it sure as hell couldn't be atomic!

With the current code it doesn't need to be atomic anyways because
all patching is done with other CPUs stopped, except for kprobes
but those only ever write a single byte.

So all these checks can be just removed.

-Andi
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