From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755513AbYANTzl (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:55:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755212AbYANTza (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:55:30 -0500 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:51004 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753299AbYANTz2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:55:28 -0500 Message-ID: <478BBE13.9010308@goop.org> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:54:59 -0800 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Andi Kleen , tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: unify pagetable accessors patch causes double fault III References: <20080114094814.GA28300@basil.nowhere.org> <20080114125638.GA9510@basil.nowhere.org> <20080114130620.GA14057@elte.hu> <20080114135811.GA16190@one.firstfloor.org> <478B9183.3020101@goop.org> <20080114165635.GK15542@elte.hu> <20080114170856.GA18412@one.firstfloor.org> <20080114171838.GA18662@one.firstfloor.org> <20080114190004.GB26540@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20080114190004.GB26540@elte.hu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ingo Molnar wrote: > hm. Did the hanging kernel have the i387 regset fix from Roland already? > That bug indeed manifested itself as rare desktop hangs. > > other than that i know of no pending instability but the large-RAM > bootup crash you reported. I read that as Andi is having general stability problems rather than specific large memory ones. I've been running x86 pretty stably on my 2G 32-PAE machine. I had problems a few days ago with X crashing on startup, but I attributed that to the 387 problem (it went away after an x86.git update). J