On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:51:31AM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Vivek Goyal wrote: > > So what happens if somebody builds a SMP kernel and runs on a UP machine. > > Later it hotplus one CPU. Then kernel will switch to SMP mode. Looking > > at the code it looks like it will also try to patch init text which is > > no more there and will corrupt something else? > > There are range checks for both kernel (_text -> _etext) and modules > (.text section). Anything outside isn't patched. >
Oh... I missed that. Thanks. Vivek - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
