Re: GIT head no longer boots on x86-64

[Ingo Molnar]

* Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I guess SMP kernel running on UP? In such a case the module .text
> 
> Yep
> 
> > is patched to use UP locks before the module is added to the modules
> > list and it thinks there are no valid data at that place while
> > patching.
> > 
> > Could you test it? The bug disappeared here in qemu. I've checked
> > callers of the function, and it should not matter for them.
> 
> Seems to do the job.

Queued the fix below up in tip/x86/urgent for a merge to Linus later 
today. Thanks!

	Ingo

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