Re: Regression caused by 8969960 (mm: vmap area cache)

From: Marcin Slusarz
Date: Fri Apr 22 2011 - 11:05:15 EST


On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:57:28PM +0200, Tomas Carnecky wrote:
> My intel atom mini-itx board doesn't boot anymore after said commit. The
> last messages I see in the console indicate that the kernel has just
> switched to the nouveau fb driver. Reverting the commit on top of the
> latest master does not seem to help.
>

This is a bug in nouveau and it's already fixed in Linus' tree
(commit a18d89ca026140eb8ac4459bf70a01c571dd9a32 "drm/nouveau: fix notifier
memory corruption bug"). The fix will soon be applied to .38-stable.

Marcin

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