Re: [PATCH 00 of 11] x86: separate pmd lifetime from pgd

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> hm, i tried this, and got an early crash:
> 
> [   29.389844] VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
> [   29.389872] debug: unmapping init memory c0b03000..c0b6f000
> [   29.440139] PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcs1
> [   29.463676] khelper used greatest stack depth: 2404 bytes left
> [   29.467238] PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcsa1
> [   29.541785] PANIC: double fault, gdt at c1d16000 [255 bytes]
> [   29.541785] double fault, tss at c1d19100
> [   29.541785] eip = c011fa95, esp = c3bf6000
> [   29.541785] eax = c3bf6010, ebx = c0b6fc08, ecx = 0000007b, edx = 00000000
> [   29.541785] esi = f76a7df4, edi = c011fa90
> 
> i think it's one of your patches :) Bisecting it down to the right one 
> now. Config attached.

and after a session of bisection, the winner patch is:

  Subject: x86: unify PAE/non-PAE pgd_ctor

which is a tad unexpected, given the relatively harmless nature of the 
patch. (but then again, nothing is really harmless in PAE land.)

btw., this is not fair i think: your patch was apparently caught by the 
new debugging helper that tells about itself here:

> [   29.389872] debug: unmapping init memory c0b03000..c0b6f000

note the close proximity of c0b6f000 and ebx = c0b6fc08. [ I regularly 
come up with such nasty tricks and debugging helpers like that to catch 
bad patches off-guard. You have been warned! ;-) ]

	Ingo