Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Oct 2017 06:05:41 -0500 | From | Josh Poimboeuf <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] livepatch: add atomic replace |
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On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 11:10:09AM +0200, 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.
I like this idea. When can we expect v3 of the force patches? :-)
-- Josh
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