Re: [PATCH] [5/12] x86_64: Make patching more robust, fix paravirt issue

* Andi Kleen ([email protected]) wrote:
> > This patch breaks Xen booting.  
> 
> 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.

thanks,
-chris
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