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From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: [repost PATCH] Fix SMP alternatives : use mutex instead of spinlock, text_poke is sleepable
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:22:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080422202256.GA19639@Krystal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080422190939.GA30045@elte.hu>

* Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu) wrote:
> 
> * Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi> wrote:
> 
> > Ingo,
> > 
> > I see you applied the NX fix. This patch is the other one needed to 
> > make CPU hotplug working. Could you apply this, unless Mathieu has 
> > something against it?
> 
> sure, patch looks sane - applied it and pushed it out. Thanks,
> 
> 	Ingo

Ingo,

The patch found there should also be pulled (at least the
is_vmalloc_addr -> !core_kernel_text bit) :

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/20/192

On x86_64, module code is not in is_vmalloc_addr range, so we can end up
using virt_to_page on module text addresses.

Mathieu

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Mathieu Desnoyers
Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-22 20:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20080413224207.4430a09c@daedalus.pq.iki.fi>
2008-04-13 19:48 ` [PATCH] mmiotrace: add user documentation Pekka Paalanen
2008-04-14 15:49   ` Steven Rostedt
2008-04-14 18:20     ` Pekka Paalanen
2008-04-13 20:05 ` [BUG/PATCH] x86 mmiotrace: dynamically disable non-boot CPUs Pekka Paalanen
2008-04-14  6:57   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-14 18:02     ` Pekka Paalanen
2008-04-16 11:46       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-16 17:59         ` Pekka Paalanen
2008-04-16 18:32           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-16 19:07             ` Steven Rostedt
2008-04-16 20:42             ` Pekka Paalanen
2008-04-16 20:47               ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-24 15:34           ` [Nouveau] " Stephane Marchesin
2008-04-19 15:41     ` [BUG] kmalloc_node(GFP_KERNEL) while smp_alt spinlocked Pekka Paalanen
2008-04-19 16:19       ` [PATCH] Fix SMP alternatives : use mutex instead of spinlock, text_poke is sleepable Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-19 21:06         ` Pekka Paalanen
2008-04-19 21:52           ` [BUG] CPU hotplug reboots machine (Re: [PATCH] Fix SMP alternatives : use mutex instead of spinlock, text_poke is sleepable) Pekka Paalanen
2008-04-19 21:58             ` [PATCH] Check for breakpoint in text_poke to eliminate bug_on Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-19 22:42               ` Pekka Paalanen
2008-04-20  0:05                 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-20  7:14                   ` Pekka Paalanen
2008-04-20 19:44                     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-20 20:18                       ` Pekka Paalanen
2008-04-20 20:25                         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-21 18:48                           ` [PATCH] x86_64: fix kernel rodata NX setting Pekka Paalanen
2008-04-21 18:57                             ` Steven Rostedt
2008-04-21 19:03                             ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-22 18:42         ` [repost PATCH] Fix SMP alternatives : use mutex instead of spinlock, text_poke is sleepable Pekka Paalanen
2008-04-22 19:09           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-22 20:22             ` Mathieu Desnoyers [this message]
2008-04-24 19:39   ` [PATCH v2] x86 mmiotrace: dynamically disable non-boot CPUs Pekka Paalanen
2008-04-26 11:13     ` Ingo Molnar

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