From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758179AbYJMPsI (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:48:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755285AbYJMPr4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:47:56 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:49190 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751113AbYJMPrz (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:47:55 -0400 Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:47:17 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Jiri Slaby Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Jiri Slaby Subject: Re: GIT head no longer boots on x86-64 Message-ID: <20081013164717.7a21084a@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1223910693-28693-1-git-send-email-jirislaby@gmail.com> References: <1223910693-28693-1-git-send-email-jirislaby@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.12; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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. Jiri 1 Linus 0 ;)