What is use of apply_alternative function from alternative.c

[Pritam Bankar]

Thanks Andrew , Jim

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Andrew Case <atcuno at gmail.com> wrote:

> The feature is called SMP alternatives. See if this articles helps
> you: http://lwn.net/Articles/164121/
>
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Pritam Bankar
> <pritambankar1988 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Cal anyone help me in understanding alternative.c file from Linux source
> > code.
> > I want to learn function apply_alternative. AFAIK this code applies
> better
> > replacement to instruction set used by processor.
> > But I am not sure what exactly it is doing ?
> >
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> > Pritam Bankar
> >
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