Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755672AbZCFJv3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 04:51:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750911AbZCFJvR (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 04:51:17 -0500 Received: from mail-bw0-f178.google.com ([209.85.218.178]:42906 "EHLO mail-bw0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751076AbZCFJvQ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 04:51:16 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=wbKAlWzYYhraqAhMofRzEzkHGguJXcpTlJGsxFdRl5x/5ZPPrvW00b9YXCke6ws4wy 7fz4/pwrKovzBMRzXSIhc4jetMaD5LnHYfFekHIxrmpVJTFvOQ86HYola+RzsMqlLwtk bm5tyf3SaXZptypmuuIuUeZmsT7QltEyCJiLY= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <10f740e80903060150p565e9703u81d4fe47cb599ab@mail.gmail.com> References: <200903060042.19084.rob@landley.net> <20090306084848.GO22605@hack.private> <10f740e80903060150p565e9703u81d4fe47cb599ab@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 10:51:12 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 83610bb328ff0aac Message-ID: <10f740e80903060151w779bbd11ld2fcc437ac7ac321@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix ARCH=um segfault on x86-64. From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: =?UTF-8?Q?Am=C3=A9rico_Wang?= Cc: Rob Landley , user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1614 Lines: 40 On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:50, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 09:48, Américo Wang wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 12:42:14AM -0600, Rob Landley wrote: >>>Apparently, nobody other than me has ever attempted to use User Mode Linux >>>built from 2.6.28 on x86-64, because it doesn't work.  It still doesn't work >>>in current git.  I complained about it not working back in January: >>> >>>http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=200901130159.04389.rob%40landley.net&forum_name=user- >>>mode-linux-devel >>>http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0901.2/00669.html >>> >>>And today, I bothered to track down why. >>> >>>This is the commit that broke it, when Peter Anvin merged x86 and x86-64 for >>>ARCH=um: http://kernel.org/hg/linux-2.6/rev/117978 >>> >>>Here's a patch that fixes it for me: >> >> Thanks, Bob! > > I've just did a build of plain v2.6.28 on amd64 aka x86-64. The > resulting image ran fine. So I'm wondering: why does it work for me and not for you? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- 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/