Re: [PATCH] x86: make text_poke() atomic using fixmap

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Mar 05 2009 - 05:39:51 EST



* Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Ingo,
>
> Here is the patch which uses fixmaps instead of vmap in
> text_poke(). This made the code much simpler than I thought
> :).

Looks good to me at a quick glance albeit Linus had second
thoughts about using fixmaps for this in the past. But with
delayed-flush for vmaps i think fixmaps are again the simpler
and more robust - albeit more limited - choice ...

In any case, the x86 tree already unified fixmap.h so could you
please resend the whole series as a 0/3, 1/3, 2/3, 3/3 thing
against tip:master, starting a new thread on lkml? (this thread
is already way too deep)

Ingo
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