Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755122AbZAIXLn (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2009 18:11:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752641AbZAIXLe (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2009 18:11:34 -0500 Received: from alpha.facton.com ([83.236.152.122]:40492 "EHLO alpha.facton.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752215AbZAIXLe convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2009 18:11:34 -0500 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: Re: Fw: hwinfo problem since 2.6.28 Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:09:54 +0100 Message-ID: <3C59DB883F7B0B4D8096010D45ACCD13C73ECC@exch.facton.local> In-Reply-To: <20090109222552.GB6472@linux-os.sc.intel.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Re: Fw: hwinfo problem since 2.6.28 Thread-Index: AclyqUbUaPQ+OdaOQDiNsb4IamVQRQABeO+A References: <20090108015424.e9443521.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090108112543.GA25606@elte.hu> <20090109222552.GB6472@linux-os.sc.intel.com> From: "Beschorner Daniel" To: "Suresh Siddha" , "Ingo Molnar" Cc: "Andrew Morton" , "Arjan van de Ven" , "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" , "Yinghai Lu" , "Thomas Gleixner" , "H. Peter Anvin" , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , , , Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1083 Lines: 32 > > > Since 2.6.28 my hwinfo tool crashes badly on 2 years old > OpenSuSE 10.2 > > > x64/SMP. > > > Older kernels run fine, I did a "make oldconfig" and rather used > > > defaults (just skipping low-64k checks). > > > This seems to be the only affected binary as far I can see. > > > Did I miss a new legacy/compat option or is it a bug? > > > > > > Thank you! > > > Daniel > > > > > > hwinfo: Corrupted page table at address 7fd04de3ec00 > > > PGD 7dc33067 PUD 3efe067 PMD 27b83067 PTE fffffffffffffbff > > > Bad pagetable: 000d [#9] SMP > > Daniel, Can you please check and ack if the appended patch fixes this > page table corruption issue? We tried to reproduce your issue > locally here but didn't succeed because of different hwinfo versions. > > thanks, > suresh > --- Works great! hwinfo runs fine again. Thank you! Daniel -- 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/