On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Jiri Slaby wrote:
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> Thanks. Bisected mm down to git-x86.patch, bisected git-x86-latest down to
> x86: enhance DEBUG_RODATA support - alternatives
> The patch below fixes the problem for me. Comments welcome.

You're a hero, Jiri.

And that also explains why I didn't see it - I don't do modules.

Thanks a heap.

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> The 0xf0 pattern comes from alternatives_smp_lock:
> text_poke(*ptr, ((unsigned char []){0xf0}), 1);

And we should really add a lot more sanity checking there.

		Linus
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