Re: [Bug #11342] Linux 2.6.27-rc3: kernel BUG at mm/vmalloc.c - bisected

Ingo Molnar
2008-09-30T11:04:59Z

* Mike Travis <travis-sJ/iWh9BUns@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> > could you please send whatever .c changes you have already, so that
> > we can have a look at how the end result will look like? Doesnt have
> > to build, i'm just curious about how it looks like in practice,
> > semantically.
>
>
> I will, and the full "allyesconfig" does compile. And it's basically
> a benign change in that the functionality is still the same. I'm
> currently reordering it a bit to clean it up.

btw., are the resulting instructions also expected to be the same? If
yes then you might want to verify it all by making sure the md5's of the
.o's do not change.

(If that's not possible (gcc decides to compile it a bit differently)
then no big deal, just wanted to mention the possibility.)

Ingo