Re: [PATCH 0/5] ftrace: to kill a daemon

[Steven Rostedt]

On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > 
> > Did you try short jumps? (0xeb 0x03 0x?? 0x?? 0x??)
> 
> What would those last three bytes be?

Ah, I see, you jump 3 bytes forward.

I'm pretty sure that it is still more expensive than a nop, on some archs.
But I'm not 100% sure on that.

-- Steve

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