x86: fix 27-rc crash on vsmp due to paravirt during module load

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27-rc fails to boot up if configured to use modules.

Turns out vsmp_patch was marked __init, and vsmp_patch being the
pvops 'patch' routine for vsmp, a call to vsmp_patch just turns out
to execute a code page with series of 0xcc (POISON_FREE_INITMEM -- int3).

vsmp_patch has been marked with __init ever since pvops, however,
apply_paravirt can be called during module load causing calls to
freed memory location.

Since apply_paravirt can only be called during init/module load, make
vsmp_patch with "__init_or_module"

Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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Ravikiran G Thirumalai 2008-09-22 22:58:47 -07:00 • committed by Ingo Molnar

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arch/x86/kernel/vsmp_64.c

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