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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Organization: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nuernberg, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg)
To: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com>
Subject: Re: [patches] [PATCH for 2.6.22] [9/10] i386: Disable alternative()patching after boot with DEBUG_RO
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:27:38 +0200
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		return;
> 
> Why would we need this? mark_rodata_ro() already accounts for the
> CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU case in that it doesn't write protect .text then.

True, I missed that. The other code could be removed or this patch be
dropped.

-Andi