Re: bad paravirt/Xen interaction in "x86 - Enhance DEBUG_RODATA support - alternatives"

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:24:21 +0100

* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

The patch "x86 - Enhance DEBUG_RODATA support - alternatives" enables
the kernel for writing by clearing X86_CR0_WP allow privileged writes.
This won't work in a paravirt environment for two reasons:

ok, have reverted it and have pushed out a new x86.git.

Ingo
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