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Message-Id: <200703272329.13779.ak@suse.de>
Date:	Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:29:13 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	discuss@...-64.org
Cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [discuss] 2.6.21-rc5-mm1: i386/x86_64 register_die_notifier() change

On Tuesday 27 March 2007 23:26, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:57:06PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >...
> > Changes since 2.6.21-rc4-mm1:
> >...
> > +move-die-notifier-handling-to-common-code.patch
> >...
> >  Misc
> >...
> 
> Is the removal of the vmalloc_sync_all() call in register_die_notifier() 
> on i386 and x86_64 both intentional and correct?

It's wrong. The die notifier is used by NMIs and that needs vmalloc_sync_all()

Thanks for catching that.


-Andi
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