On 05/20/2013 11:23 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Mon 20-05-13 10:21:09, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.cz> wrote:
>>>
>>> The configuration has been posted in the referenced thread:
>>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/14/398
>>
>> Hmm. That's a regular intel i5 Sandybridge CPU. Which certainly has NX.
>>
>> Hmm. secondary_startup_64 isn't __initcode, is it? I think it's used
>> for resuming the other CPU's too and for CPU hotplug. Yes/no?
>>
>> If so early_pmd_flags shouldn't be __initdata, I think.
>>
>> Michal, does it work if you don't do the revert, but just remove the
>> __initdata instead?
>
> Right you are! The following patch on top of your tree fixes the
> problem. Thanks a lot. I will leave the proper changelog to somebody who
> is more familiar with the area but AFAIU the real problem is that
> early_pmd_flags is no longer available beacause the section is gone.
>
I'll write it up and send a pull request to Linus.
-hpa
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