Re: why is trampoline.S code copied for each cpu?

From: willy@thepuffingroup.com
Date: Tue Jul 11 2000 - 00:11:27 EST


On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 07:11:10AM +0100, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> question - because each instance writes some magic number a5a5a5a5 to its
> code. Ok, so then the answer becomes - why does it do that?

a5a5a5a5 is slab poisoning. more than that i don't know.

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