Re: [PATCH] x86, FPU: Fix FPU initialization

H. Peter Anvin
2013-04-12T05:35:49Z

I used to have one of these but have it away when cleaning out my study... no space.

Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:

>
>* Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:26:09PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> > What host is this?
>>
>> Judging by the DMI string in the oops:
>>
>> > [ 15.921486] Pid: 73, comm: hwclock Tainted: G W
>3.9.0-rc6+ #222032 System manufacturer System Product Name/A8N-E
>>
>> it is an ASUS board with a K8 on it - probably Ingo's old K8 which
>> triggers all kinds of crap off an on.
>>
>> 8-)
>
>Yep, with Fedora Core 8, and totally unchanged userspace, booting
>randconfigs of
>the latest -tip:master tree. This box has booted up over a million
>Linux kernels
>in the past 4+ years, so when it shows new types of sickness then in
>99.9% of the
>cases it's something about the kernel.
>
>The lockup went away after excluding x86/cpu. I'll try more testing as
>time
>permits.
>
>Thanks,
>
> Ingo

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