Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763074AbYF3RVq (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:21:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754025AbYF3RVg (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:21:36 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:57258 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756821AbYF3RVf (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:21:35 -0400 Message-ID: <48691556.2080208@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:18:14 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Travis CC: "Eric W. Biederman" , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Christoph Lameter , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [crash, bisected] Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86_64: Fold pda into per cpu area References: <20080604003018.538497000@polaris-admin.engr.sgi.com> <20080605102222.GA21319@elte.hu> <484EF29C.7080100@sgi.com> <485947A8.8060801@goop.org> <4859511E.5050605@sgi.com> <48596315.6020104@goop.org> <48596893.4040908@sgi.com> <485AADAC.3070301@sgi.com> <485AB78B.5090904@goop.org> <485AC120.6010202@sgi.com> <485AC5D4.6040302@goop.org> <485ACA8F.10006@sgi.com> <485ACD92.8050109@sgi.com> <485AD138.4010404@goop.org> <485ADA12.5010505@sgi.com> <485ADC73.60009@goop.org> <485BDB04.4090709@sgi.com> <485BE80E.10209@goop.org> <485BF8F5.6010802@goop.org> <485BFFC5.6020404@sgi.com> <486912C4.8070705@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <486912C4.8070705@sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 514 Lines: 15 Mike Travis wrote: > > FYI, I did try this out and it caused the bootloader to scramble the > loaded data. The first corruption I found was the .x86cpuvendor.init > section contained all zeroes. > Explain what you mean with "the bootloader" in this context. -hpa -- 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/