linux-kernel - Re: bisected boot regression post 2.6.25-rc3.. please revert

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Message-ID: <20080304065305.GA32287@elte.hu>
Date:	Tue, 4 Mar 2008 07:53:05 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	hans.rosenfeld@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: bisected boot regression post 2.6.25-rc3.. please revert


* Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com> wrote:

>> I'm staring at the disassembly and it's quite different but 
>> follow_page() is rather large; trying to make a smaller testcase now
>
> sadly a more isolated testcase doesn't show the same behavior yet; so 
> it's some fun interaction ;(
>
> more staring at the assembly for me

could you post the "bad" and the "good" disassembled functions, and the 
specific gcc version string?

	Ingo
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