Re: [PATCH 0/19] desc_struct integration

Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-12-12T18:28:18Z

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
>>>> Ingo, in the absense of further complaints, could you please push
>>>> to the x86 tree?
>>> yeah, i've added them.
>> the patches cause a spontaneous reboot on x86 64-bit, around the time
>> when bootup hits user-space. It's due to one of the 25 patches from
>> you today. Config attached.
>
> likely caused by this patch:
>
> Subject: unify non-paravirt parts of desc.h
>
> _please_ be more careful when unifying. Do check the before/after
> vmlinux - the binary size at least. And watch out for compiler warnings
> as well:
>
> arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c: In function 'read_32bit_tls':
> arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c:454: warning: passing argument 1 of 'get_desc_base' from incompatible pointer type
I saw this warning, and this was fixed in the patch that follows. But
yeah, I could have done a separate one, to avoid it. Do you have any
other reason to believe this is the cause?

My box booted fine with the changes, but I'm re-verifying, and will send
and update soon.

> i've pulled the patches from the tree for now.
Ok, I'll investigate it, meanwhile.