linux-kernel - Re: Regression caused by 8969960 (mm: vmap area cache)

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Message-ID: <20110422150306.GA3036@joi.lan>
Date:	Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:03:06 +0200
From:	Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@...il.com>
To:	Tomas Carnecky <tom@...ervice.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Regression caused by 8969960 (mm: vmap area cache)

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:57:28PM +0200, Tomas Carnecky wrote:
> My intel atom mini-itx board doesn't boot anymore after said commit. The 
> last messages I see in the console indicate that the kernel has just 
> switched to the nouveau fb driver. Reverting the commit on top of the 
> latest master does not seem to help.
> 

This is a bug in nouveau and it's already fixed in Linus' tree
(commit a18d89ca026140eb8ac4459bf70a01c571dd9a32 "drm/nouveau: fix notifier
memory corruption bug"). The fix will soon be applied to .38-stable.

Marcin

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