Petr Vandrovec <[email protected]> writes:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Sunday 12 August 2007 10:12, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >> after I upgraded kernel on my box to current git, only thing it did
> >> was rebooting in a loop. After some digging I found that it is silly
> >> to apply alternative to memcpy by using that every same memcpy...
> >> Sorry if it is known bug, I do not see it reported in my LKML mailbox...
> > Ok Linus already applied your patch. Even though it's a really bad
> > fragile hack, not better than the old bug.
> > Petr are you double sure you really tested with
> > ab144f5ec64c42218a555ec1dbde6b60cf2982d6
> > already applied? I bet not -- it is the symptom exactly fixed by this patch
>
> I'm quite sure that this patch is in my tree, as I have that "u8
> *instr = a->instr;" in apply_alternatives, and it seems that this one
> was added by checkin you mention... My tree was synced up to:
Can you double check? I have a hard time believing it.
> It does not actually change two bytes - it changes two bytes now
> because alternative is two bytes long - it makes no sense to replace
> whole function with NOPs - it is necessary when you fall through that
It saves the jump. Admittedly not a big advantage.
-Andi
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