Please remove ab144f5ec64c42218a555ec1dbde6b60cf2982d6 was Re: [discuss] [PATCH] Fix triplefault on x86-64 bootup

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sun Aug 12 2007 - 06:12:21 EST


On Sunday 12 August 2007 10:12, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> Hello,
> after I upgraded kernel on my box to current git, only thing it did
> was rebooting in a loop. After some digging I found that it is silly
> to apply alternative to memcpy by using that every same memcpy...
> Sorry if it is known bug, I do not see it reported in my LKML mailbox...

Ok Linus already applied your patch. Even though it's a really
bad fragile hack, not better than the old bug.

Petr are you double sure you really tested with
ab144f5ec64c42218a555ec1dbde6b60cf2982d6
already applied? I bet not -- it is the symptom exactly fixed by this patch
(although

Linus, I would prefer if you reverted
b8d3f2448b8f4ba24f301e23585547ba1acc1f04
again -- it should really not be needed with
ab144f5ec64c42218a555ec1dbde6b60cf2982d6

And I really dislike Petr's patch because while it might work
today (I'm not 100% sure it actually works to only replace
2 bytes) if we change memcpy ever it'll likely cause strange
problems again.

-Andi
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