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SubjectRe: [repost PATCH] Fix SMP alternatives : use mutex instead of spinlock, text_poke is sleepable
* 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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