Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:33:27 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, glommer@gmail.com,
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       ak@suse.de, chrisw@sous-sol.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, hpa@zytor.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/19] desc_struct integration
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* Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>>
>>>>> Ingo, in the absense of further complaints, could you please push to 
>>>>> the x86 tree?
>>>> yeah, i've added them.
>>> the patches cause a spontaneous reboot on x86 64-bit, around the time 
>>> when bootup hits user-space. It's due to one of the 25 patches from you 
>>> today. Config attached.
>>
>> likely caused by this patch:
>>
>>   Subject: unify non-paravirt parts of desc.h
>>
>> _please_ be more careful when unifying. Do check the before/after vmlinux 
>> - the binary size at least. And watch out for compiler warnings as well:
>>
>>  arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c: In function 'read_32bit_tls':
>>  arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c:454: warning: passing argument 1 of 'get_desc_base' from incompatible pointer type

> I saw this warning, and this was fixed in the patch that follows. But 
> yeah, I could have done a separate one, to avoid it. Do you have any 
> other reason to believe this is the cause?

that is bisection-unfriendly - every patch has to work.

> My box booted fine with the changes, but I'm re-verifying, and will 
> send and update soon.

please try the config i sent - does that boot fine on your box?

	Ingo
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