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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1 / ...] i386 dynamic fixup/self modifying code
From: Luca Barbieri <ldb@ldb.ods.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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> 2) patch them more simply, the .subsection entries would
>    be "kern_addr, insn" __u32 pairs on x86 for example.
This can be made a single u32 by using the MSB for the insn and doing
this with additions so that it works with relocations.
It might not be possible for modules, though.


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