linux-kernel - Re: [patch] x86_64, vsyscall: fix the oops crash with __pa

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Message-ID: <20071011053112.GB5228@in.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:01:12 +0530
From:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...ibm.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc:	"Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, yanmin.zhang@...el.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [patch] x86_64, vsyscall: fix the oops crash with __pa_vsymbol()

On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 03:36:58PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 October 2007 03:59:22 Siddha, Suresh B wrote:
> > Appended patch fixes an oops while changing the vsyscall sysctl.
> > I am sure no one tested this code before integrating into mainline :(
> 
> The original code worked, but got broken by 0dbf7028c0c1f266c9631139450a1502d3cd457e
> > 

Yep. My mistake. I did not test this aspect of the patch. System booted
fine with all the applications running so I assumed things are fine.

Thanks Suresh. This patch looks good.

Thanks
Vivek
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