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From: "Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
To: "Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "Dmitry Adamushko" <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Thomas Meyer" <thomas@m3y3r.de>,
	"the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: -git: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at c0100248 [CPU hotplug]
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:35:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19f34abd0807271235q516fc2e1rc43c6736044eabfc@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807272118460.574@apollo.tec.linutronix.de>

On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Vegard Nossum wrote:
>> Booting processor 1/1 ip 6000
>> Initializing CPU#1
>> [...]
>> Write protecting the kernel text: 5648k
>>
>> So it succeeds because the protection happens much later :-)
>
> Patch below fixes the issue. I get it to Linus ASAP.

Nice :)

[...]

> +.section .cpuinit.data,"wa"
> +.align 4
> +ENTRY(initial_code)
> +       .long i386_start_kernel
> +
>  .section .text
>  /*
>  * Real beginning of normal "text" segment
>

Hm, isn't there some kind of "section stack" that can be used to
restore the previous section? .pushsection/.popsection directives?


Vegard

-- 
"The animistic metaphor of the bug that maliciously sneaked in while
the programmer was not looking is intellectually dishonest as it
disguises that the error is the programmer's own creation."
	-- E. W. Dijkstra, EWD1036

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-27 19:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-27  9:55 Vegard Nossum
2008-07-27 10:07 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-07-27 17:14 ` Dmitry Adamushko
2008-07-27 17:19   ` Vegard Nossum
2008-07-27 19:23     ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-07-27 19:35       ` Vegard Nossum [this message]
2008-07-27 19:40         ` Vegard Nossum
2008-07-28 18:34           ` Glauber Costa

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