Re: [PATCH] x86: Fix 27-rc crash on vsmp due to paravirt duringmodule load

[Ingo Molnar]

* Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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