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From: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
Subject: Re: [xen-unstable bisection] complete
 test-amd64-i386-qemuu-rhel6hvm-amd
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:33:26 +0100
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On 17/10/2012 10:21, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:

>> Perhaps we reverted before because we decided that this advertised table
>> size was a bug, and handling it just opened us to other bugs lurking in the
>> table?
> 
> As just said in the response to Ian - originally, only a spec violating
> vale was accepted here, whereas with the change we also accept
> the proper value. The patch itself was prompted by a bug report
> we got that on a spec conformant system the "ERST table is invalid"
> message was seen.

Oh dear!

 K.