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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