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From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-mm2 boot failure on x86-64
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 14:52:17 -0400
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Cc: Steve Fox <drfickle@us.ibm.com>,
	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>,
	Martin Bligh <mbligh@mbligh.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
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On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 08:27:02PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Thursday 05 October 2006 19:57, Steve Fox wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 17:40 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 
> > > Please don't snip the Code: line. It is fairly important.
> > 
> > Sorry about that. The remote console I was using appears to overwrite
> > some text after I force the reboot. Here's a clean one.
> > 
> > global ffffffffffffffff
> 
> Ok that definitely shouldn't be in there.
> 
> I guess we need to track when it gets corrupted. Can you send the full
> boot log with this patch applied?
> 

Just recalled one more observation about the problem when keith had
reported it last. If I just move .bss before .data_nosave instead
of it being at the end, keith's problem had disappeared.

Thanks
Vivek