From: "Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
To: "'Bjoern A. Zeeb'"
<bzeeb-lists-mt/InyFV0sMN6vK3N8ee0qxOck334EZe@public.gmane.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy-8fiUuRrzOP0dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds-Lhe3bsMrZseB+jHODAdFcQ@public.gmane.org>,
acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: RE: [bug] endless loop in arch/i386/kernel/mpparse.c
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 10:59:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EDC461A30AC4D511ADE10002A5072CAD0236DEDD@orsmsx119.jf.intel.com> (raw)
> From: Bjoern A. Zeeb [mailto:bzeeb-lists-mt/InyFV0sMN6vK3N8ee0qxOck334EZe@public.gmane.org]
> > buggy MADT, but let's not _crash_ when the vendor provides
> a shit BIOS.
>
> the other thing that I was thinking of is: entry is icremented by 8
> but to reach madt_end we need to do another 494 increments. As I am
> not really in that code I ask myself what is in that struct. If I
> remember correctly 309 objects, ... were found; far not that much ...
> (assumtion that we walk through them).
> This, with the entry->header.length being zero I think (repeating
> myself) madt_end may be wrong ?
I cribbed this code from table.c acpi_table_parse_madt_family, which works
fine.
Some change must have screwed something up for this to be hanging...
Regards -- Andy
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2002-09-30 17:59 Grover, Andrew [this message]
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2002-09-30 18:27 ` [PATCH] endless loop in arch/i386/kernel/mpparse.c Bjoern A. Zeeb
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2002-09-29 21:32 [bug] " Grover, Andrew
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2002-09-29 22:30 ` Ernst Herzberg
2002-09-29 19:27 Bjoern A. Zeeb
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2002-09-29 22:35 ` Matthew Wilcox
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2002-09-30 5:41 ` Bjoern A. Zeeb
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