Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] livepatch: add atomic replace

[Jiri Kosina]

On Wed, 18 Oct 2017, Miroslav Benes wrote:

> 3. Drop immediate. It causes problems only and its advantages on x86_64 
> are theoretical. You would still need to solve the interaction with atomic 
> replace on other architecture with immediate preserved, but that may be 
> easier. Or we can be aggressive and drop immediate completely. The force 
> transition I proposed earlier could achieve the same.

After brief off-thread discussion, I've been thinking about this a bit 
more and I also think that we should claim immediate "an experiment that 
failed", especially as the force functionality (which provides equal 
functionality from the userspace POV) will likely be there sonnish.

Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs