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x86: fix 27-rc crash on vsmp due to paravirt during module load

x86: fix 27-rc crash on vsmp due to paravirt during module load

27-rc fails to boot up if configured to use modules.

Turns out vsmp_patch was marked __init, and vsmp_patch being the
pvops 'patch' routine for vsmp, a call to vsmp_patch just turns out
to execute a code page with series of 0xcc (POISON_FREE_INITMEM -- int3).

vsmp_patch has been marked with __init ever since pvops, however,
apply_paravirt can be called during module load causing calls to
freed memory location.

Since apply_paravirt can only be called during init/module load, make
vsmp_patch with "__init_or_module"

Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vsmp_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/vsmp_64.c
index 0c029e8959c..7766d36983f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vsmp_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vsmp_64.c
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ static void vsmp_irq_enable(void)
 	native_restore_fl((flags | X86_EFLAGS_IF) & (~X86_EFLAGS_AC));
 }
 
-static unsigned __init vsmp_patch(u8 type, u16 clobbers, void *ibuf,
+static unsigned __init_or_module vsmp_patch(u8 type, u16 clobbers, void *ibuf,
 				  unsigned long addr, unsigned len)
 {
 	switch (type) {