Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:34:22 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>,
       Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
       Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Immediate values
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* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:

> I would like to get an official ACK or NAK for this patching technique 
> from inside Intel, and preferrably from AMD as well.  If it does work 
> as described it would provide a very clean way to do one-shot 
> alternative functions, which probably would be higher value than 
> immediate data values.

Sounds tempting. Things like the CONFIG_SECURITY hookery could use it?

But ... since it's patched under stopmachine, is there any reason why 
this wouldnt work?

	Ingo
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