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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:51:11 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> To: Gerhard Brauer <gerhard.brauer@....de> Cc: "Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" <lcapitulino@...driva.com.br>, Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.{26.2,27-rc} oops on virtualbox * Gerhard Brauer <gerhard.brauer@....de> wrote: > Am Sonntag, den 31.08.2008, 11:09 -0300 schrieb Luiz Fernando N. > Capitulino: > > > Mandriva kernel was 2.6.26.3 based at the time I started testing > > this and all my last tests have been done on 2.6.27-rc4. I think it's > > very unusual to have a change in a -stable kernel not present in the > > latest -rc. > > I was away the last days, but i notice that the virtualbox update to > 2.0.2 solve all problems i mentioned. We also have same responses from > other arch users. > I never saw the "early boot oops" (this have had gone still with our > kernel update, mystical....). But also the "heavy IO oops" has gone. So > it was a virtualbox problem, they fixed it in: > http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/1875 > > So from my side this is solved. great - the VirtualBox recompiler didnt notice the paravirt code modification sequence. Any Linux kernel side NOP issue (which caused that early oops) should be solved in 2.6.27-rc7 as well. so the combo of 2.0.2 and later VirtualBox plus v2.6.27-rc7 and later should have no known bugs. Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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