From: Avi Kivity Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 10:03:48 +0000 (+0300) Subject: x86/alternatives: Fix p6 nops on non-modular kernels X-Git-Tag: v3.6-rc4~25^2~1 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cb09cad44f07044d9810f18f6f9a6a6f3771f979;p=pandora-kernel.git x86/alternatives: Fix p6 nops on non-modular kernels Probably a leftover from the early days of self-patching, p6nops are marked __initconst_or_module, which causes them to be discarded in a non-modular kernel. If something later triggers patching, it will overwrite kernel code with garbage. Reported-by: Tomas Racek Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity Cc: Michael Tokarev Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Anthony Liguori Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Alan Cox Cc: Alan Cox Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5034AE84.90708@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-diff-tree failed