From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86: fix text_poke Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:00:39 -0300 Message-ID: <20080427010039.GB12370@ghostprotocols.net> References: <481241DC.3070601@zytor.com> <20080425211205.GC25950@Krystal> <20080425230028.GC31226@Krystal> <481265B7.9040505@goop.org> <48126A80.4000203@redhat.com> <4812CA02.8040705@goop.org> <20080426115634.GH16635@ghostprotocols.net> <4813BCF8.3090907@goop.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Masami Hiramatsu , Mathieu Desnoyers , Linus Torvalds , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andi Kleen , Ingo Molnar , Jiri Slaby , David Miller , zdenek.kabelac@gmail.com, rjw@sisk.pl, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, clameter@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pageexec@freemail.hu, "Frank Ch. Eigler" , systemtap@sources.redhat.com To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4813BCF8.3090907@goop.org> List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: systemtap-owner@sourceware.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org 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