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On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 16:25 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 5 Jul 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > 
> > I'll give it a try using probe_kernel_address() instead on monday.
> 
> Here's the updated patch which uses probe_kernel_address() instead (and 
> moves the whole #ifdef mess out of the code that wants it and into a 
> helper function - and maybe we should then put that helper into 
> kallsyms.h, but that's a different issue).
> 
> Still all happily untested, of course. And still with no actual users 
> converted.

Did a few tests and it seems to work. I'll stick a patch converting
powerpc to use %pS for oops display in -next.

Thanks !

Cheers,
Ben.