Re: [GIT PATCH] ACPI patches for 2.6.25-rc5

Thomas Renninger
2008-03-13T13:25:46Z

On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 13:55 +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 02:51:45PM +0800, Zhang, Rui wrote:
> > Well, the patch looks good, this may be caused by a BIOS problem.
> > anyway, I wish to get the response from Andrea so that I can do some
> > investigation ASAP.
>
> Here attached again. syslog isn't available because by the time it
> crash netconsole isn't up yet, but I try to compile it as module and
> see if it crashes by loading it manually later after netconsole
> started. (you didn't ask for syslog until today)
>
> Hardware is ASUS M2A-VM ACPI BIOS Revision 1604.
This is pretty sure fixed in 2.6.25-rc5.

It's probably this:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=350017
It's fixed by:
c8d16e27a3601d1cbcdfe657eb4ff5e762019e8d
-> fixing the memory corruption
b6a163875935ce8e8e85901a7f2b68f7a314d914
-> check the pointer which is now not corrupted anymore, but NULL.

Hmm, the commits are only in Len's tree and have not hit
Linus' tree yet.

Thomas

> email message attachment
> > -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
> > To: Zhang, Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
> > Cc: Thomas, Sujith <sujith.thomas@intel.com>, Brown, Len
> > <len.brown@intel.com>
> > Subject: Re: thermal.c crash at boot
> > Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:55:56 +0100
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 09:15:13AM +0800, Zhang, Rui wrote:
> > > Please attach the acpidump output.
> >
> > attached.
> >