Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754836AbYLJGgW (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:36:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753566AbYLJGgN (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:36:13 -0500 Received: from smtp-outbound-2.vmware.com ([65.115.85.73]:36409 "EHLO smtp-outbound-2.vmware.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751013AbYLJGgM (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:36:12 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix VMI crash on boot in 2.6.27+ kernels From: Zachary Amsden To: Greg KH Cc: "norman@thebacks.co.uk" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , Yinghai Lu , mingo , Alok Kataria , "bruno.premont@restena.lu" , "xl@xlsigned.net" , "dsd@gentoo.org" In-Reply-To: <20081210004441.GB18520@suse.de> References: <1228870222.8766.15.camel@bodhitayantram.eng.vmware.com> <20081210004441.GB18520@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:30:05 -0800 Message-Id: <1228894205.8766.20.camel@bodhitayantram.eng.vmware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 720 Lines: 19 On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 16:44 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 04:50:21PM -0800, Zachary Amsden wrote: > > Patches backported into 2.6.27.4 caused a regression with VMI kernels > > running on VMware which ends in a page fault during boot. I have a fix > > which still allows DMI checks to be done early. > > Is this regression also present on 2.6.28-rc kernels as well? Yes, I reproduced and fixed this on a git tree synced to mainline today. Thanks, 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/