Re: [PATCH] [5/12] x86_64: Make patching more robust, fix paravirtissue

[Chris Wright]

* Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jeremy@xxxxxxxx) wrote:
> This patch breaks Xen booting.  I get infinite recursive faults during
> patching when this patch is present.  If I boot with
> "noreplace-paravirt" it works OK, and it works as expected if I back
> this patch out.  I haven't tracked down the exact failure mode; its a
> little hard to debug because it overwrites all kernel memory with
> recursive fault stackframes and then finally traps out to Xen when it
> hits the bottom of memory.
> 
> I think we should back this one out before .23.

I agree (second time this has broken during .23 devel).

thanks,
-chris
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