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Re: Hitachi djprobe mechanism


Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> I think so. the size of smallest jmp instruction is 2 bytes on i386,
> but the smallest instruction is 1byte on i386 (ex. pushl %esi).
> I will try to add safety check routine in sched() and do_IRQ().

I'm sorry, I'm probably missing something. What will the checks in
sched() and do_IRQ() do to avoid problems?

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