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...instructions as usual at init. This is then > used for switching back and forth between native and paravirt mode. > ([1] lists some representative numbers of the increased memory > footprint.) > > Mechanism: the patching itself is done using stop_machine(). That is > not ideal -- text_poke_stop_machine() was replaced with INT3+emulation > via text_poke_bp(), but I'm using this to address two issues: > 1) emulation in text_poke() can only easily handle a small set > of instructions and this is problematic for inlined pv-ops (and see > a possible alternatives use-case below.) &gt...

...instructions as usual at init. This is then > used for switching back and forth between native and paravirt mode. > ([1] lists some representative numbers of the increased memory > footprint.) > > Mechanism: the patching itself is done using stop_machine(). That is > not ideal -- text_poke_stop_machine() was replaced with INT3+emulation > via text_poke_bp(), but I'm using this to address two issues: > 1) emulation in text_poke() can only easily handle a small set > of instructions and this is problematic for inlined pv-ops (and see > a possible alternatives use-case below.) &gt...

On 08.04.20 14:08, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 10:02:57PM -0700, Ankur Arora wrote: >> Mechanism: the patching itself is done using stop_machine(). That is >> not ideal -- text_poke_stop_machine() was replaced with INT3+emulation >> via text_poke_bp(), but I'm using this to address two issues: >> 1) emulation in text_poke() can only easily handle a small set >> of instructions and this is problematic for inlined pv-ops (and see >> a possible alternatives u...