From: Jurriaan <thunder7@xs4all.nl>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: md linear personality oops on boot with 2.6.10-rc1-mm4 and 2.6.10-rc1-mm5
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 13:16:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041113121628.GA3045@middle.of.nowhere> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16789.46845.6950.773945@cse.unsw.edu.au>
From: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Date: Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 06:25:49PM +1100
> On Friday November 12, thunder7@xs4all.nl wrote:
> >
> > In 2.6.9-mm1, this works.
> > In 2.6.10-rc1-mm4 and 2.6.10-rc1-mm5, I get an oops during boot:
> >
> > linear_run+0x20b
> >
>
> Thanks. Looks like an unsigned variable going negative:-(
> I made the mistake of only testing it with a linear array with all
> components the same size.
>
> Please verify that this patch fixes it.
>
Excellent, this makes 2.6.10-rc1-mm5 boot without any problems.
Kind regards,
Jurriaan
--
53 reasons why Janeway is better than Picard:
(47) Kes. Troi. No contest.
Debian (Unstable) GNU/Linux 2.6.9-mm1 2x6078 bogomips load 0.00
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-12 14:30 md linear personality oops on boot with 2.6.10-rc1-mm4 and 2.6.10-rc1-mm5 Jurriaan
2004-11-13 7:25 ` Neil Brown
2004-11-13 12:16 ` Jurriaan [this message]
2004-11-15 0:20 ` Neil Brown
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