Re: What is use of apply_alternative function from alternative.c

April 2, 2012


      Thanks Andrew , Jim

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