Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758364AbXHRU4Z (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Aug 2007 16:56:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753511AbXHRU4Q (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Aug 2007 16:56:16 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:60835 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753487AbXHRU4P (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Aug 2007 16:56:15 -0400 Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:55:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Chris Wright cc: Andi Kleen , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , patches@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rusty Russell Subject: Re: [PATCH] [5/12] x86_64: Make patching more robust, fix paravirt issue In-Reply-To: <20070818203230.GV3672@sequoia.sous-sol.org> Message-ID: References: <20070809241.425881000@suse.de> <20070809124132.C794A14F3B@wotan.suse.de> <46C637B7.30200@goop.org> <200708181149.48217.ak@suse.de> <20070818203230.GV3672@sequoia.sous-sol.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 688 Lines: 19 On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Chris Wright wrote: > > > > Check the latest git head. Does it still break? > > Yeah, this is the latest git. The broken commit is Rusty's patch which, > after Linus reverted the write-protected remap changes, is no longer > necessary. AFAICT patching is writing garbage into the insn stream. > I suspect it's copying an uninitialized temp buffer. Can you send me the revert patch that is verified to work? Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/