Re: What is use of apply_alternative function from alternative.c
Thanks Andrew , Jim On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Andrew Case <atcuno@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@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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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@gmail.com>wrote:
Thanks Andrew , Jim
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Andrew Case <atcuno@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@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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