On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 09:41:49AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 08:09:27AM +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 03:10:45AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2015-09-13 at 00:56 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > > > 2.6.32-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let 
> > > > me know.
> > > > 
> > > > ------------------
> > > > 
> > > > From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carst...@de.ibm.com>
> > > > 
> > > > commit d74419495633493c9cd3f2bbeb7f3529d0edded6 upstream.
> > > > 
> > > > Sebastian reported a crash caused by a jump label mismatch after resume.
> > > > This happens because we do not save the kernel text section during 
> > > > suspend
> > > > and therefore also do not restore it during resume, but use the kernel 
> > > > image
> > > > that restores the old system.
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > I don't think this is needed because jump labels aren't implemented in
> > > 2.6.32.  But maybe there was some other mechanism that changes the
> > > kernel text on s390?
> > 
> > Broken jump labels were the symptons when the problem was reported. However
> > we lose everything that modifies kernel text without this patch.
> > If it's not jump labels then there is still kprobes around where we have
> > the same problem.
> > Probably the patch description should have been better.
> 
> OK so in the end you suggest you keep it in both 2.6.32 and 3.2 ?

Yes, please.

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