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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Paul Drynoff <pauldrynoff@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] Can not boot linux-2.6.18-rc4-mm2
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:54:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44EB7D2D.7000006@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <36e6b2150608221413h3b6baf24lf670a2aed61c0c57@mail.gmail.com>

Paul Drynoff wrote:
> I made bisection, here is results:
>
> add-efi-e820-memory-mapping-on-x86.patch - GOOD
> #
> i386-adds-smp_call_function_single-fix.patch
> fix-boot-on-efi-32-bit-machines.patch - GOOD
> kill-default_ldt.patch - BAD
>
> Wihtout last patch all works ok. 

Hm.  Try this:

From: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>

Fix kill-default_ldt.patch

--- a/arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.c
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ static fastcall void native_set_ldt(cons
 	u32 low, high;
 
 	pack_descriptor(&low, &high, (unsigned long)addr,
-			entries * sizeof(struct desc_struct) - 1,
+			entries * sizeof(struct desc_struct),
 			DESCTYPE_LDT, 0);
 	write_gdt_entry(get_cpu_gdt_table(cpu), GDT_ENTRY_LDT, low, high);
 
===================================================================
--- a/include/asm-i386/desc.h
+++ b/include/asm-i386/desc.h
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ static inline void set_ldt(const void *a
 	__u32 low, high;
 
 	pack_descriptor(&low, &high, (unsigned long)addr,
-			entries * sizeof(struct desc_struct) - 1,
+			entries * sizeof(struct desc_struct),
 			DESCTYPE_LDT, 0);
 	write_gdt_entry(get_cpu_gdt_table(cpu), GDT_ENTRY_LDT, low, high);
 



  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-22 21:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-22  8:51 [BUG] Can not boot linux-2.6.18-rc4-mm2 Paul Drynoff
2006-08-22 16:50 ` Paul Drynoff
2006-08-22 21:14   ` Frederik Deweerdt
2006-08-22 21:14     ` Paul Drynoff
2006-08-22 19:38 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-22 21:13   ` Paul Drynoff
2006-08-22 21:54     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2006-08-23  4:27       ` Paul Drynoff
2006-08-23 15:07         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-23  4:36   ` Paul Drynoff

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