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

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Date:	Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:43:35 -0800
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, tglx@...utronix.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: unify pagetable accessors patch causes double fault II

Andi Kleen wrote:
> The patch does not fix the problem here. When I boot plain git-x86
> upto commit 67db3027d691ff8049d19be7bc440eca0e5826d7
> on my 6GB machine I still get an recursive oops on entering user space.
>
> The only difference to earlier kernels seems to be that the problem
> happens a little latter (in stty, not boot), but that might be just
> coincidence.
>   

Yesterday's x86.git was missing all my unification patches, so if you 
were seeing this oops then, it's something else.   Is it still caused 
specifically by "unify pagetable accessors", or is some other change 
being problematic now?

    J
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