linux-kernel - Re: Panic in reserve

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Message-ID: <20100301151149.GA15134@sgi.com>
Date:	Mon, 1 Mar 2010 09:11:49 -0600
From:	Jack Steiner <steiner@....com>
To:	"Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>,
	"Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	"mingo@...e.hu" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"tglx@...utronix.de" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Panic in reserve_memtype()

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 04:05:18PM -0600, Jack Steiner wrote:

> > 
> > I guess I found an obvious problem in the code. Can you check whether the
> > below patch resolves the panic you are seeing.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Venki
> 
> 
> Works great!! Thanks...


Venki

Were you planning to push this fix upstream? Both the x86 & linux-next tree
currently fail to boot on EFI-enabled systems because of this bug.

Thanks...


--- jack
> 
> 
> > 
> > 
> > new->type should only change when there is a valid ret_type. Otherwise
> > requested type and return type should be same.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/mm/pat_rbtree.c |    4 +++-
> >  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pat_rbtree.c b/arch/x86/mm/pat_rbtree.c
> > index e4cd229..58b6de1 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/mm/pat_rbtree.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat_rbtree.c
> > @@ -223,7 +223,9 @@ int rbt_memtype_check_insert(struct memtype *new, unsigned long *ret_type)
> >  						new->type, ret_type);
> >  
> >  	if (!err) {
> > -		new->type = *ret_type;
> > +		if (ret_type)
> > +			new->type = *ret_type;
> > +
> >  		memtype_rb_insert(&memtype_rbroot, new);
> >  	}
> >  	return err;
> > -- 
> > 1.6.0.6
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