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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, patches@x86-64.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: make SMP locks handling interact properly with	CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA (2nd try)
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:41:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <468BBFB3.9080303@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <468B5B54.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>

Jan Beulich wrote:
> Instead of suppressing the change of .text to become readonly, make
> the SMP locks patching code properly adjust/restore the page access
> rights.
>   

I guess we'll need to do the same thing for paravirt_ops patching?

> On x86-64 additionally remove all mappings past the kernel image, and
> remove leftovers from the removal of the more general (but abandoned)
> SMP alternatives.
>   

I'd already posted a patch to remove smp alternatives.  I thought it had 
been merged already, but I guess it's in Andi's queue.

    J

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-04 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-04  6:33 [PATCH] x86: make SMP locks handling interact properly with CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA (2nd try) Jan Beulich
2007-07-04 15:41 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2007-07-04 16:15   ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-04 16:44     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-04 16:29   ` Jan Beulich
2007-07-04 17:51   ` Dave Jones
2007-07-04 18:09     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-17 17:54 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-17 20:55   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-07-18  6:00   ` Jan Beulich
2007-07-17 17:57 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-07-04 16:31 Jan Beulich
2007-07-04 16:46 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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