Re: Resume Issues :Exec of NX page, Synaptics Botchup

[Ingo Molnar]

* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Now I get a different call trace for the same NX error. (And Synaptics is
> > completely dead this time - not attributable to the patch, it was dumb
> > luck perhaps that it wored last time.)
> 
> Just because I'm crazy, can you double-check that you applied my patch
> and booted the right kernel?
> 
> Because that NX error *really* looks like the call to setup_smep(),
> and the eip still very much looks like something jumped to the
> "__init" region, not the "__cpuinit" region.
> 
> That backtrace really still looks like the same thing.
> 
> Oh, and you should do
> 
> -static int disable_smep __initdata;
> +static int disable_smep __cpuinitdata;
> 
> too, I guess. Not that it should matter for this particular oops.

We have a fix for this queued up in x86/urgent:

 1d487624fcc1: x86, SMEP: Fix section mismatch warnings

which got delayed by weekend latency ... will send these fixes in a couple of 
minutes.

Thanks,

	Ingo

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