Re: [patch] i386-PDA, lockdep: fix %gs restore

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Sep 11 2006 - 01:53:31 EST



* Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Monday 11 September 2006 07:25, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Jeremy,
> >
> > could you back out Andi's patch and try the patch below, does it fix the
> > crash too?
>
> iirc the crash was long before any system calls could be called
> (except maybe kernel_thread/clone, but for that %gs doesn't change)

the screenshot from Laurent:

http://laurent.riffard.free.fr/2.6.18-rc6-mm1/

shows a much later crash, which crash is consistent with the bug fixed
by my patch.

Ingo
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