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In fd4363ff ("x86: Introduce int3 (breakpoint)-based
instruction patching"), the mechanism that was introduced for
notifying alternatives code from int3 exception handler that and
exception occured was die_notifier.

This is however problematic, as early code might be using jump
labels even before the notifier registration has been performed,
which will then lead to an oops due to unhandled exception. One
of such occurences has been encountered by Fengguang:

 int3: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
 Modules linked in:
 CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 3.11.0-rc1-01429-g04bf576 #8
 task: ffff88000da1b040 ti: ffff88000da1c000 task.ti: ffff88000da1c000
 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff811098cc>]  [<ffffffff811098cc>] ttwu_do_wakeup+0x28/0x225
 RSP: 0000:ffff88000dd03f10  EFLAGS: 00000006
 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88000dd12940 RCX: ffffffff81769c40
 RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000001
 RBP: ff...