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Message-Id: <20100330125304.53f079db.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:53:04 -0700 From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>, Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, stable <stable@...nel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] modules fix incorrect percpu usage On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:52:08 -0400 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com> wrote: > Should use per_cpu_ptr() to obfuscate the per cpu pointers (RELOC_HIDE is needed > for per cpu pointers). > > Introduced by commit: > > module.c: commit 6b588c18f8dacfa6d7957c33c5ff832096e752d3 > > It applies to mainline as of 2.6.34-rc2. This patch should be queued for the > stable branch, for kernels 2.6.29.x to 2.6.33.x. > (based on 2.6.33.1, also applies to 2.6.34-rc2 -tip) Why do you beleive this should be backported to -stable? What are the user-visible effects of this change? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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