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From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Daniel Kiper <dkiper@net-space.pl>,
	mingo@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu,
	linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86, apic: Fix apic=debug boot crash
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:59:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C72B6F7.8010706@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9cca0990-1b78-40e7-a71d-f550b4f504aa@email.android.com>

On 08/23/2010 07:54 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> It's already applied.
> 
> "Daniel Kiper" <dkiper@net-space.pl> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:24:20PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 5:41 AM, tip-bot for Daniel Kiper
>>> <dkiper@net-space.pl> wrote:
>>>> Commit-ID: ?05e407603e527f9d808dd3866d3a17c2ce4dfcc5
>>>> Gitweb: ? ? http://git.kernel.org/tip/05e407603e527f9d808dd3866d3a17c2ce4dfcc5
>>>> Author: ? ? Daniel Kiper <dkiper@net-space.pl>
>>>> AuthorDate: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:46:16 +0200
>>>> Committer: ?Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
>>>> CommitDate: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:18:28 +0200
>>>>
>>>> x86, apic: Fix apic=debug boot crash
>>>>
>>>> Fix a boot crash when apic=debug is used and the APIC is
>>>> not properly initialized.
>>>>
>>>> This issue appears during Xen Dom0 kernel boot but the
>>>> fix is generic and the crash could occur on real hardware
>>>> as well.
>>>
>>> Do you have any report on real hardware?
>>> that could not happen on real hardware.
>>
>> Till now no, however I think it is good idea
>> to apply this patch now. It is not worth to wait
>> for another null pointer dereference.

no, we should add BUG_ON() etc debug info there to see why that null cfg could happen.

because according to code, we should have null there.

Yinghai

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-23 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-19 22:46 [PATCH] arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c: Fix for crash when apic=debug is used Daniel Kiper
2010-08-20 12:41 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86, apic: Fix apic=debug boot crash tip-bot for Daniel Kiper
2010-08-20 19:24   ` Yinghai Lu
2010-08-23  8:12     ` Daniel Kiper
2010-08-23 14:54       ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-23 17:59         ` Yinghai Lu [this message]
2010-08-24 21:39           ` Daniel Kiper
2010-08-24 21:47             ` Yinghai Lu
2010-08-25 13:51               ` Daniel Kiper

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