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SubjectRe: [PATCH] modules fix incorrect percpu usage
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:52:08 -0400
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> wrote:

> Should use per_cpu_ptr() to obfuscate the per cpu pointers (RELOC_HIDE is needed
> for per cpu pointers).
>
> Introduced by commit:
>
> module.c: commit 6b588c18f8dacfa6d7957c33c5ff832096e752d3
>
> It applies to mainline as of 2.6.34-rc2. This patch should be queued for the
> stable branch, for kernels 2.6.29.x to 2.6.33.x.
> (based on 2.6.33.1, also applies to 2.6.34-rc2 -tip)

Why do you beleive this should be backported to -stable? What are the
user-visible effects of this change?



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