Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932521AbXHXTfw (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:35:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755487AbXHXTfm (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:35:42 -0400 Received: from smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com ([65.113.40.141]:37389 "EHLO smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753965AbXHXTfl (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:35:41 -0400 Message-ID: <46CF31CE.306@vmware.com> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:30:22 -0700 From: Zachary Amsden User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Parag Warudkar CC: Michal Piotrowski , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , LKML , linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Greg KH , Alan Stern , Oliver Neukum , Tino Keitel , linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, Richard Henderson , Ivan Kokshaysky , Oliver Falk , Chris Wright Subject: Re: [4/4] 2.6.23-rc3: known regressions v3 References: <46CF0DEF.5040107@googlemail.com> <46CF17A0.2060503@googlemail.com> <82e4877d0708241231j76474326ufdd19ec5448537b9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <82e4877d0708241231j76474326ufdd19ec5448537b9@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1307 Lines: 33 Parag Warudkar wrote: > On 8/24/07, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > > >> Virtualization >> >> Subject : CONFIG_VMI broken >> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/14/203 >> Last known good : ? >> Submitter : Parag Warudkar >> Caused-By : ? >> Handled-By : Zachary Amsden >> Status : problem is being debugged >> > > Zach seemed to think that this is already fixed - I am not in a > position to test it immediately so if we know what fixed this - can be > closed. I'll report back once I get a chance to test latest git. > Parag, thanks. I reproduced this bug with your kernel config on 2.6.23-rc3 and verified it does not happen on latest git. I inspected memory after the crash and determined the problem was patching of instructions went awry. Chris in the meantime fixed a bug with patching instructions, and the change from 100% apocalyptic failure to 100% unequivocal success has convinced me that was the same bug. Zach - 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/