From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: James Simmons <jsimmons@transvirtual.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.26 broken on headless boxes
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 11:45:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020719114509.B14588@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0207181604140.16453-100000@www.transvirtual.com>
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 04:07:06PM -0700, James Simmons wrote:
>
> > I also see similar problems on x86-64 in 2.5.25. The kernel quickly crashes
> > when trying to return from opost_write() because something below has zeroed
> > out the stack (with serial console and vga console and early console enabled)
> > I have not tried it with 2.5.26 yet.
>
> It is the result of registering the console device first for printk and
> then later registering the tty device. Eventually I like to be able to
> have VT_CONSOLE independent of CONFIG_VT so we could have a light weight
> printk. The goal is register tty device once we find a keyboard of some
> kind.
Could you explain to me how this causes a stack overwrite with the
current kernel ? I would like to fix this ASAP because it is a showstopper
for me in 2.5 right now.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-19 9:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20020717165538.D13352@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-07-18 12:45 ` 2.5.26 broken on headless boxes Andi Kleen
2002-07-18 23:07 ` James Simmons
2002-07-19 9:45 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2002-07-18 22:16 Petr Vandrovec
2002-07-18 22:20 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-07-18 23:01 ` James Simmons
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-07-18 21:42 Petr Vandrovec
2002-07-18 21:45 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-07-18 21:04 Petr Vandrovec
2002-07-18 21:18 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-07-17 15:55 Matthew Wilcox
2002-07-18 1:06 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-18 9:48 ` Re[3]: " Tobias Rittweiler
2002-07-18 10:46 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-18 12:29 ` Re[2]: " Tobias Rittweiler
2002-07-18 20:17 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-18 13:29 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-07-18 20:18 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-18 20:32 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-07-18 20:37 ` William Lee Irwin III
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