linux-kernel - Re: Fw: hwinfo problem since 2.6.28

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Date:	Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:09:54 +0100
From:	"Beschorner Daniel" <Daniel.Beschorner@...ton.com>
To:	"Suresh Siddha" <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@...radead.org>,
	"Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>,
	"Yinghai Lu" <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, <spender@...ecurity.net>,
	<pageexec@...email.hu>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fw: hwinfo problem since 2.6.28

> > > Since 2.6.28 my hwinfo tool crashes badly on 2 years old 
> OpenSuSE 10.2
> > > x64/SMP.
> > > Older kernels run fine, I did a "make oldconfig" and rather used
> > > defaults (just skipping low-64k checks).
> > > This seems to be the only affected binary as far I can see.
> > > Did I miss a new legacy/compat option or is it a bug?
> > > 
> > > Thank you!
> > > Daniel
> > > 
> > > hwinfo: Corrupted page table at address 7fd04de3ec00
> > > PGD 7dc33067 PUD 3efe067 PMD 27b83067 PTE fffffffffffffbff
> > > Bad pagetable: 000d [#9] SMP
> 
> Daniel, Can you please check and ack if the appended patch fixes this
> page table corruption issue? We tried to reproduce your issue
> locally here but didn't succeed because of different hwinfo versions.
> 
> thanks,
> suresh
> ---

Works great! hwinfo runs fine again.

Thank you!
Daniel
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