Re: [PATCH] x86_64: fix kernel rodata NX setting

[Ingo Molnar]

* Pekka Paalanen <pq@xxxxxx> wrote:

> From 35922163c8054bd8d12df78ebae6a6a603760206 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Pekka Paalanen <pq@xxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:36:09 +0300
> Subject: [PATCH] x86_64: fix kernel rodata NX setting
> 
> Without CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE, mark_rodata_ro() would mark a wrong 
> number of pages as no-execute. The bug was introduced in the patch 
> "ftrace: dont write protect kernel text". The symptom was machine 
> reboot after a CPU hotplug.

thanks Pekka, nice fix!

	Ingo
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