Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757310Ab1DNILz (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2011 04:11:55 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:34550 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757127Ab1DNILw convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2011 04:11:52 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:09:14 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Yinghai Lu , Joerg Roedel , Ingo Molnar , Alex Deucher , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" , Thomas Gleixner , Tejun Heo Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc3 Message-ID: <20110414090914.2d643362@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <20110412090207.GE19819@8bytes.org> <20110412184433.GF19819@8bytes.org> <20110413064609.GA18777@elte.hu> <20110413172147.GI19819@8bytes.org> <4DA5F62F.3030504@kernel.org> <20110413193459.GL19819@8bytes.org> <4DA60C30.4060606@kernel.org> <4DA6145D.9070703@kernel.org> <4DA655E7.3000904@zytor.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.22.0; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-14 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1090 Lines: 26 On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:33:40 -0700 Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wednesday, April 13, 2011, Linus Torvalds > wrote: > > On Wednesday, April 13, 2011, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >> > >> Yes. ?However, even if we *do* revert (and the time is running short on > >> not reverting) I would like to understand this particular one, simply > >> because I think it may very well be a problem that is manifesting itself > >> in other ways on other systems. > > sorry, fingerfart. Anyway, I agree 100%. > > we definitely want to also understand the reason for things not > working, even if we do revert.. Definitely because if it fails when the "magic" involves the GART base it starts to sound like something may be hitting the wrong address space or not flushing properly. -- 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/