Re: [PATCH] Fix potential interrupts during alternative patching[was Re: [RFC] Avoid PIT SMP lockups]

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Thu Oct 19 2006 - 04:47:18 EST


Zachary Amsden wrote:
So this patch is an obvious bugfix - please apply, and to stable as well. I'm not sure when this broke, but taking interrupts in the middle of self modifying code is not a pretty sight.

I had actually seen this when I built the Xen paravirt kernel with SMP on, but I assumed it was something in the pv_ops tree rather than mainline...

J
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