Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261555AbTKTHPo (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2003 02:15:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261567AbTKTHPo (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2003 02:15:44 -0500 Received: from modemcable137.219-201-24.mc.videotron.ca ([24.201.219.137]:19843 "EHLO montezuma.fsmlabs.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261555AbTKTHPn (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2003 02:15:43 -0500 Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 02:14:30 -0500 (EST) From: Zwane Mwaikambo To: Matt Mackall cc: Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , "Martin J. Bligh" , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel , linux-mm@kvack.org, Hugh Dickins Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.6-mm] Fix 4G/4G X11/vm86 oops In-Reply-To: <20031119230928.GE22139@waste.org> Message-ID: References: <20031119203210.GC22139@waste.org> <20031119230928.GE22139@waste.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1487 Lines: 30 On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Matt Mackall wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 02:32:10PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: > > > > Zwane's got a K6-2 500MHz. I've just managed to reproduce this on my > > 1.4GHz Opteron box (with Debian gcc 3.2). Here, the "ooh la la" bit > > doesn't help. So my suspicion is that the printk is changing the > > timing just enough on Zwane's box that he's getting a timer interrupt > > knocking him out of vm86 mode before he hits a fatal bit in the fault > > handling path for 4/4. Printks in handle_vm86_trap, handle_vm86_fault, > > do_trap:vm86_trap, and do_general_protection:gp_in_vm86 never fire so > > there's probably something amiss in the trampoline code. > > Some more datapoints: Thanks for trying those out, i got another one to add. > CPU distro compiler video X result > K6-2/500 connectiva 9 2.96 trident 4.3 reboot (zwane) > K6-2/500 connectiva 9 3.2.2 trident 4.3 reboot (zwane) > Opteron 240 debian unstable 3.2 S3 4.2.1 reboot > Athlon 2100 debian unstable 3.2 radeon 7500 4.2.1 works > P4M 1800 debian unstable 3.2 radeon m7 4.2.1 reboot P4/Xeon 2000 Fedora Core 1 3.3.2 ATI Rage XL 4.3.0 reboot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/