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DateTue, 23 Sep 2008 10:31:45 +0200
FromIngo Molnar <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: Fix 27-rc crash on vsmp due to paravirt during module load
* 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


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