[PATCH 1/1] x86: fix text_poke

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com
Tue Apr 29 07:51:00 GMT 2008


Em Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 04:38:32PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge escreveu:
> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
>> You do, when you decide to stop tracing. He is not talking about the old
>> function, that one, indeed will always be there, but what about the new
>> one? When tracing stops we want to remove it and revert to using the old
>> one...
>>
>> But perhaps you are suggesting that the new one, once loaded, stays
>> there forever, that would work, but after several tracing sessions one
>> would have to eventually reboot the machine due to many modules left
>> loaded.
>
> As I said, it doesn't seem like a very satisfactory way to solve the 
> problem.

Indeed :-)

- Arnaldo



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