Re: [patch] i386-PDA, lockdep: fix %gs restore

Ingo Molnar
2006-09-11T05:56:39Z

* Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:

> On Monday 11 September 2006 07:25, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Jeremy,
> >
> > could you back out Andi's patch and try the patch below, does it fix the
> > crash too?
>
> iirc the crash was long before any system calls could be called
> (except maybe kernel_thread/clone, but for that %gs doesn't change)

the screenshot from Laurent:

http://laurent.riffard.free.fr/2.6.18-rc6-mm1/

shows a much later crash, which crash is consistent with the bug fixed
by my patch.

Ingo