On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> * Steven Rostedt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hmm, this was originally copied from x86, where we did a cmpxchg, but > > > > that > > > > is probably not needed since all of this is done in kstop_machine. > > > > Also, > > > > only the "get" is needed. If we don't fault there, we wont fault on the > > > > put (unless we have permissions wrong, and that would be a bug). > > > > > > Would it ? How do we make sure the kernel text is mapped writeable ? > > > > We map it writeable if FTRACE is enabled. > > > > Argh. See text_poke(). It's there exactly for this purpose on x86. > OK, I just tried text_poke and it unfortunately fails. The problem is that it requires that the text you are changing is aligned and fits on one page. We have no control over that. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
