linux-kernel - Re: Lockup after logging out of X

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Message-ID: <16635.1178655711@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Tue, 08 May 2007 16:21:51 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@...world.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...ibm.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Subject: Re: Lockup after logging out of X

On Tue, 08 May 2007 20:51:42 BST, Ken Moffat said:

>  After trying git-bisect, it tells me:
> 0dbf7028c0c1f266c9631139450a1502d3cd457e is first bad commit
> commit 0dbf7028c0c1f266c9631139450a1502d3cd457e
> Author: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...ibm.com>
> Date:   Wed May 2 19:27:07 2007 +0200
> 
>     [PATCH] x86: __pa and __pa_symbol address space separation
> 
>     Currently __pa_symbol is for use with symbols in the kernel address
>     map and __pa is for use with pointers into the physical memory map.
>     But the code is implemented so you can usually interchange the two.

I saw this same exact problem on my box back at 21-rc5-mm4, but didn't
report it here because Christoph Hellwig thinks such things are off-topic (as
I was seeing it with the NVidia driver).

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=117579249300455&w=2
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=89444

Sorry to see you hit a problem with the exact same patch with a Radeon card
a month later.





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