Hi... On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 17:15, Ashok Babu <ashok3d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So here my questions/doubts : > 1) Is'nt it the kernel itself is self modifying code with lots of function > pointers ? AFAIK, yes there are many.. however, some of them, even in the form of pointer assignment, are rarely changing. But if it is changing, for sure cache needs to be flushed/invalidated. This is especially true in SMP environment ( and don't forget memory barrier....) -- regards, Mulyadi Santosa Freelance Linux trainer and consultant blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
