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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708181355280.30176@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:55:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
cc:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	patches@...-64.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [5/12] x86_64: Make patching more robust, fix paravirt
 issue



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
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