On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 12:07:25PM +0000, Jiaxun Yang wrote: > I'm fairly familiar with Loongson64 and I'll take care of it, for > IP27 I have limited knowledge on it, I'm confident with dealing > general NUMA stuff, but REPLICATE_KTEXT seems a little bit cursed > for me. > > I had a glance on it and I think this feature won't work on modern > kernel anyway. Nowadays, we have many fancy stuff like uasm and > static key which will modify kernel text at runtime. > > So I just wonder if there is any remaining user on this feature? yes, it's broken at the moment, but usefull for IP27 (and IP35) > Are we safe to drop it? no, please leave alone. Thomas. -- Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessarily a good idea. [ RFC1925, 2.3 ]
