From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <48F717F6.10804@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:31:18 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: GIT head no longer boots on x86-64 References: <1223910693-28693-1-git-send-email-jirislaby@gmail.com> <20081013164717.7a21084a@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20081015115153.GA16413@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Ingo Molnar , Alan Cox , Jiri Slaby , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-mm@kvack.org, "David S. Miller" , the arch/x86 maintainers List-ID: Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Oh, btw. This patch is *totally* untested. I don't even enable modules. So > if it doesn't compile, it isn't perfect. But while it may not _work_, at > least it's not _ugly_. > > (Quite frankly, I think an even more correct fix is to rename the whole > "vmalloc_to_page()" function, since it's clearly used for other things > than vmalloc. Maybe "kernel_virtual_to_page()". Whatever. This is trying > to be minimal without being totally disgusting). > I have verified that this patch fixes the problem, at least in my test rig, and has queued it up for tip:x86/urgent. It should be in the next pull request. Note that this bug only bites when CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL=y and we're running an SMP kernel on UP. Not that that is any excuse. -hpa -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org