What is use of apply_alternative function from alternative.c

[Pritam Bankar]

Jim ,
Is it a boot time process ? Can I switch to smp mode in running kernel?

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Pritam Bankar <pritambankar1988 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks Andrew , Jim
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> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Andrew Case <atcuno at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> The feature is called SMP alternatives. See if this articles helps
>> you: http://lwn.net/Articles/164121/
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>> 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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