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

[S.ÃaÄlar Onur]

19 Eki 2006 Per 12:00 tarihinde, Zachary Amsden ÅunlarÄ yazmÄÅtÄ: 
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > 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...
>
> Very likely to show up in qemu as well, if you use that.

I can confirm qemu and virtual pc 2004 gaves same exception without that 
patch.

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