From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] x86: fix savesegment() bug causing crashes on 64-bit
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:58:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48779F5A.9070502@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080711175002.GA32116@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> i spent a fair amount of time chasing a 64-bit bootup crash in
> tip/master that manifested itself as bootup segfaults:
>
Crap, I'm sorry. I fixed this locally a couple of days ago, but I
hadn't actually observed it causing any problems, so I didn't rush to
push it out.
> The solution is to only allow segment operands to go to registers. This
> fix allows my test-system to boot up without crashing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
J
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2008-07-11 17:50 [patch] x86: fix savesegment() bug causing crashes on 64-bit Ingo Molnar
2008-07-11 17:58 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
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