Hi Andi,
On 7/19/07, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
qemu testing and booting test machines with i386 kernels wasn't very successfull
with recent git kernels. I got either BUGs because of failing sysfs
initialization
or oopses in kmalloc, but no user land.
I bisected it down to this commit.
To reproduce: try to boot a 386 defconfig kernel, compiled with gcc 4.1, in qemu
[snip]
6cb8f91320d3e720351c21741da795fed580b21b is first bad commit
commit 6cb8f91320d3e720351c21741da795fed580b21b
Author: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue Jul 17 04:03:22 2007 -0700
Slab allocators: consistent ZERO_SIZE_PTR support and NULL result semantics
I have i386 defconfig kernel + qemu + busybox userland image + GCC
4.1.2 booting ok here. Did you manage to capture the oops? Is the
userland image available somewhere?
Pekka
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