Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> Hi Rusty,
>
> Good catch. I also still wonder why alternative (except alternative smp,
> which is ok) and paravirt patching functions are not marked __init. I really
> hope they are never used when NMI, MCE are enabled or when threads may
> have been preempted in the site being patched, or it could result in an
> illegal instruction.
>
We need to patch modules at load time. Presumably an NMI/MCE handler
will not depend on code in a being-loaded module.
J
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