From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [Bug #11237] corrupt PMD after resume Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:44:39 +0200 Message-ID: <20080927174439.GD26047@elte.hu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: kernel-testers-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kernel Testers List , Alan Jenkins , Hugh Dickins , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Yinghai Lu * Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report of > recent regressions. > > The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions > from 2.6.26. Please verify if it still should be listed and let me > know (either way). > > > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11237 > Subject : corrupt PMD after resume > Submitter : Alan Jenkins > Date : 2008-08-02 9:51 (57 days old) > References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121767073424952&w=4 > Handled-By : Hugh Dickins > Jeremy Fitzhardinge > Patch : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122001615314700&w=2 actually, it's now believed that this is a BIOS problem that affects all Linux versions. The aspect of v2.6.27 is that it happens to put kernel pagetables into the area that gets corrupted by the BIOS - and users notice that. i.e. it's not a regression - unless i'm missing something. Ingo From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757024AbYI0Rvv (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:51:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755792AbYI0RpE (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:45:04 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:60915 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755781AbYI0RpA (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:45:00 -0400 Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:44:39 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kernel Testers List , Alan Jenkins , Hugh Dickins , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Yinghai Lu Subject: Re: [Bug #11237] corrupt PMD after resume Message-ID: <20080927174439.GD26047@elte.hu> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report of > recent regressions. > > The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions > from 2.6.26. Please verify if it still should be listed and let me > know (either way). > > > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11237 > Subject : corrupt PMD after resume > Submitter : Alan Jenkins > Date : 2008-08-02 9:51 (57 days old) > References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121767073424952&w=4 > Handled-By : Hugh Dickins > Jeremy Fitzhardinge > Patch : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122001615314700&w=2 actually, it's now believed that this is a BIOS problem that affects all Linux versions. The aspect of v2.6.27 is that it happens to put kernel pagetables into the area that gets corrupted by the BIOS - and users notice that. i.e. it's not a regression - unless i'm missing something. Ingo