Joerg's patch works for me too. Thanks,
Benny Andi Kleen wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 03:35:56PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote: >> On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 03:01:44PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: >>> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:56:16PM -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote: >>>> Hi, Andi: >>>> >>>> The attached patch (actually, git show output) makes my Dell 1501 to hang >>>> on boot. Sorry, I have no clue why... The culprit is found with git bisect. >>>> But yes, it's an AMD MK-36. I use an x86_64 kernel. It is 100% >>>> reproducible. >>> MK-36? Does it have SVM? >>> >>> Anyways we previously had issues with this being miscompiled, but >>> I thought the latest patch should have been ok. What compiler do you use? >>> >>> Can you send me a disassembly listing of arch/x86_64/kernel/time.o? >> I debugged this problem a bit and my compiler[1]interprets the =A >> constraint as %rax instead of %edx:%eax on x86_64 which causes the >> problem. The appended patch provides a workaround for this and fixed the >> hang on my machine. > > Hmm yes now I can reproduce it too. I didn't see any hangs so i suppose > my (and that of most -mm tester's) compiled binary always happened to have a > suitable value in edx > > Thanks for the patch. > > -Andi > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Benny Halevy Panasas Inc. Accelerating Time to Results(TM) with Clustered Storage www.panasas.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel/Fax: +972-3-647-8340 Mobile: +972-54-802-8340 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
