From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
To: vgoyal@in.ibm.com
Cc: linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Subject: Re: Will smp alternative try to patch init text also?
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:51:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45D2E9B3.8080008@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070214104338.GA3393@in.ibm.com>
Vivek Goyal wrote:
> So what happens if somebody builds a SMP kernel and runs on a UP machine.
> Later it hotplus one CPU. Then kernel will switch to SMP mode. Looking
> at the code it looks like it will also try to patch init text which is
> no more there and will corrupt something else?
There are range checks for both kernel (_text -> _etext) and modules
(.text section). Anything outside isn't patched.
cheers,
Gerd
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Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-14 10:51 UTC|newest]
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2007-02-14 10:43 Vivek Goyal
2007-02-14 10:51 ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2007-02-14 11:12 ` Vivek Goyal
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