From: Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.31-rc5-git2 crash [net/core/flow.c:flow_cache_new_hashrnd]
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:55:00 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A8100AC.30404@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1249597385.24311.10.camel@pasglop>
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> BTW. Corruption looks like bi_recs... ie, broken yaboot. This was fixed
> recently, yaboot would eventually crap over the kernel for certain sizes
> of the kernel image.
>
> 0x1010 = BI_FIRST
> 0x1013 = BI_BOOTLOADER_ID followed by 0x7961626f6f74 which is
> "yaboot" :-)
> 0x1016 = BI_MACHTYPE
>
Was away from office for few days.
Thanks for the help. The machine under test is running
F11. I will try out the latest yaboot.
Thanks
-Sachin
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Sachin Sant
IBM Linux Technology Center
India Systems and Technology Labs
Bangalore, India
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-11 5:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-04 12:27 2.6.31-rc5-git2 crash on a idle system Sachin Sant
2009-08-04 13:43 ` 2.6.31-rc5-git2 crash [net/core/flow.c:flow_cache_new_hashrnd] Sachin Sant
2009-08-04 14:15 ` Michael Ellerman
2009-08-06 22:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-08-07 2:54 ` Josh Boyer
2009-08-07 3:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-08-07 3:49 ` Tony Breeds
2009-08-11 5:25 ` Sachin Sant [this message]
2009-08-04 21:27 ` 2.6.31-rc5-git2 crash on a idle system Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-08-05 9:17 ` Sachin Sant
2009-08-05 9:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-08-06 13:33 ` Sachin Sant
2009-08-06 13:40 ` Michael Ellerman
2009-08-06 21:51 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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