From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Glauber de Oliveira Costa <glommer@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Fix 27-rc crash on vsmp due to paravirt during module load
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:31:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080923083145.GD23031@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080923055847.GA26882@localdomain>
* Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> wrote:
> 27-rc fails to boot up if configured to use modules. Turns out
> vsmp_patch was marked __init, and vsmp_patch being the pvops 'patch'
> routine for vsmp, a call to vsmp_patch just turns out to execute a
> code page with series of 0xcc (POISON_FREE_INITMEM -- int3). Since
> apply_paravirt can only be called during init/module load, make
> vsmp_patch with "__init_or_module"
applied to tip/x86/urgent, thanks Ravikiran!
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-23 8:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-23 5:58 [PATCH] x86: Fix 27-rc crash on vsmp due to paravirt during module load Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2008-09-23 8:31 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-09-23 18:03 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
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