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

From: Chris Wright
Date: Sat Aug 18 2007 - 16:33:05 EST


* Andi Kleen (ak@xxxxxxx) wrote:
> > This patch breaks Xen booting.
>
> Check the latest git head. Does it still break?

Yeah, this is the latest git. The broken commit is Rusty's patch which,
after Linus reverted the write-protected remap changes, is no longer
necessary. AFAICT patching is writing garbage into the insn stream.
I suspect it's copying an uninitialized temp buffer.

thanks,
-chris
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