From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756405AbYAOX2q (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:28:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751001AbYAOX2h (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:28:37 -0500 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:54313 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750895AbYAOX2g (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:28:36 -0500 Message-ID: <478D4197.8060904@goop.org> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:28:23 -0800 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: LKML , Andi Kleen , Glauber de Oliveira Costa , Jan Beulich Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 4] x86: some more patches References: <20080115223534.GA20484@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20080115223534.GA20484@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: > unfortunately they dont solve it: > > [ 92.042586] Freeing unused kernel memory: 328k freed > [ 92.091838] khelper used greatest stack depth: 6244 bytes left > [ 92.281738] init[1]: segfault at 00000004 ip 49471cbb sp bff8dbb0 error 4 > [ 92.288761] init[1]: segfault at 00000004 ip 49471cbb sp bff8dbb0 error 4 > [ 92.295763] init[1]: segfault at 00000004 ip 49471cbb sp bff8dbb0 error 4 > [...] > [ 97.312484] printk: 611046 messages suppressed. > > 32-bit, PAE and RAM above 4GB seems to be enough to trigger that bug. > Bum. We established that once you fix the accessors+sign extension bug, there's another bug somewhere later on in the series. Any chance you could move "x86/pgtable: fix constant sign extension problem" to be just after "x86/pgtable: unify pagetable accessors" and bisect the following patches? Thanks, J