Re: dmsetup fails on latest kernel

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Jan 19 2012 - 15:30:28 EST


On 01/19/2012 12:17 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 12:13 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Could you please send me:
>>
>> a) your full strace;
>> b) arch/x86/kernel/syscall_32.o from your build?
>
> Btw, the strace before-and-after (working vs nonworking) would
> probably be useful. They aren't easily comparable (all the random
> pointers change depending on allocations etc), but some scripting and
> editing out pointer values might make the difference be obvious.
>
> Linus

Possible. I have actually reproduced it and reduced it to a small test
case already, so I hopefully will have it nailed down soon.

-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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