From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: GIT head no longer boots on x86-64
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:51:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081015115153.GA16413@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081013164717.7a21084a@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
* Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > I guess SMP kernel running on UP? In such a case the module .text
>
> Yep
>
> > is patched to use UP locks before the module is added to the modules
> > list and it thinks there are no valid data at that place while
> > patching.
> >
> > Could you test it? The bug disappeared here in qemu. I've checked
> > callers of the function, and it should not matter for them.
>
> Seems to do the job.
Queued the fix below up in tip/x86/urgent for a merge to Linus later
today. Thanks!
Ingo
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810130752020.3288@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 15:11 ` Jiri Slaby
2008-10-13 15:47 ` Alan Cox
2008-10-15 11:51 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-10-15 13:19 ` Jiri Slaby
2008-10-15 15:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-15 15:33 ` Jiri Slaby
2008-10-15 16:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-15 20:31 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-15 15:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-16 10:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
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