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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:52:53 -0700
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
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       Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>,
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Subject: Re: i386 pda patches
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Andrew Morton wrote:
> I am unable to correlate what's in Andi's tree with the PDA-related emails
> on this list.  Why is this?
>
> Anyway, the PDA patches are causing my little old dual-pIII to reboot about
> one second into the boot process.
>
> Bisection says:
>
> x86_64-mm-i386-pda-asm-offsets.patch
> x86_64-mm-i386-pda-basics.patch                         OK
> x86_64-mm-i386-pda-init-pda.patch                       oops
> x86_64-mm-i386-pda-use-gs.patch				reboot
> x86_64-mm-i386-pda-user-abi.patch                       BAD
> x86_64-mm-i386-pda-vm86.patch
> x86_64-mm-i386-pda-smp-processorid.patch
> x86_64-mm-i386-pda-current.patch
>
>
> So x86_64-mm-i386-pda-init-pda.patch causes the below oops and
> x86_64-mm-i386-pda-use-gs.patch causes the instareboot.
>   

Hm, I can't repro this. I just rolled a new set of i386-pda patches 
against 2.6.18-mm1, and tried your .config, but it boots fine for me. I 
may have fixed a problem in the process of generating new patches, but 
nothing stands out. The oops you're getting is pretty bad; it doesn't 
seem like it should be .config-dependent or in any way intermittent (ie, 
everyone should be seeing this if anyone does).

Anyway, could you try again with the new i386-pda patches? I'll post 
them shortly.

Thanks,
J
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