linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.38-rc6

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Message-ID: <AANLkTinzse1ZfEvAuWfuZ_8VDypcnD5poU6GwOdYTgWh@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:37:11 -0800
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Anca Emanuel <anca.emanuel@...il.com>
Cc:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.38-rc6

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 5:20 AM, Anca Emanuel <anca.emanuel@...il.com> wrote:
>>
>> Every boot?
>
> Yes.
>
>> And just out of interest, what happens if you don't have the vesafb
>> driver at all?
>
> I used 'e' option from grub, removed the 'set gfxpayload = $linux_gfx_mode'
> and it works.
>
> dmesg: http://pastebin.com/JAZsk4vD

Hmm. So it definitely seems to be the hand-over.

Does this patch make any difference? When we unregister the old
framebuffer, we still leave it in the registered_fb[] array, which
looks wrong. But it would also be interesting to hear if setting
CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON or CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC makes any difference
(they'd help detect accesses to free'd data structures).

                          Linus

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