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On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> ah. Then the patch below should do the trick, right?

Hopefully. The linker sometimes reacts in funky ways and we do some 
strange magic with the offsets through gcc memory models (at least on 
x86_64 not sure what 32 bit does).