Re: Immediate values

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Sep 24 2009 - 15:34:47 EST



* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> 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
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