Re: [PATCH 0/3] ring-buffer: less locking and only disablepreemption

[Steven Rostedt]

On Sat, 4 Oct 2008, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> 
> Or use this code, based on a temporary breakpoint, to do the code
> patching (part of the -lttng tree). It does not require stop_machine at
> all and is nmi safe.
> 

When this is supported for all archs, and can be done at all functions 
then I could use it.

I may just have the arch specific code use it, but we'll see.

Also, how good is it at patching 20,000 call sites?

-- Steve

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