linux-kernel - Re: unify pagetable accessors patch causes double fault III

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Date:	Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:54:59 -0800
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, tglx@...utronix.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: unify pagetable accessors patch causes double fault III

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> hm. Did the hanging kernel have the i387 regset fix from Roland already? 
> That bug indeed manifested itself as rare desktop hangs.
>
> other than that i know of no pending instability but the large-RAM 
> bootup crash you reported.

I read that as Andi is having general stability problems rather than 
specific large memory ones.

I've been running x86 pretty stably on my 2G 32-PAE machine.  I had 
problems a few days ago with X crashing on startup, but I attributed 
that to the 387 problem (it went away after an x86.git update).

    J
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