Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] x86/alternatives: Teach text_poke_bp() to emulate instructions
From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Oct 08 2019 - 10:54:28 EST
On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 04:48:34PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Can, but why? That's more lines for no raisin ;-)
Here's a raisin: I was looking at this and then all of a sudden went:
"W00t, why is this do_sync part of the loop at all? Do they belong
together? Nope."
If we're going to save on lines, we've lost long ago.
> Very first pass, we write INT3's everywhere.
Doh.
Thx.
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