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    SubjectRe: [PATCH?] uprobes: change uprobe_write_opcode() to modify the page directly
    On 12/04/2013 03:11 AM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
    >
    > It is still not clear to me if we can simply change a single byte on
    > x86 or not, but at least on powerpc we need to update 4 bytes. Perhaps
    > we can conditionalize these pte games later.
    >

    But 4 aligned bytes can be written as a single transaction.

    -hpa



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