x86/alternatives: Fix p6 nops on non-modular kernels
authorAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Wed, 22 Aug 2012 10:03:48 +0000 (13:03 +0300)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Wed, 22 Aug 2012 10:09:49 +0000 (12:09 +0200)
commitcb09cad44f07044d9810f18f6f9a6a6f3771f979
treed46afa5828ace6662bf155bb4f454f35fb63990f
parent2530cd4f448935c74eeb49f29559589928e4b2f0
x86/alternatives: Fix p6 nops on non-modular kernels

Probably a leftover from the early days of self-patching, p6nops
are marked __initconst_or_module, which causes them to be
discarded in a non-modular kernel.  If something later triggers
patching, it will overwrite kernel code with garbage.

Reported-by: Tomas Racek <tracek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5034AE84.90708@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c