Hi everybody, since yesterday my laptop kept on hard-locking when launching 32bit binaries / apps I didn't know what to do but
miguel botón was the one pointing me in the right direction, namely bisect :) kudos to him & the others involved in his zen-sources project: http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/zen-sources.git bisect said the following is the causer: bfba91b199b0e67497db81f05dd1105c269712cb is first bad commit commit bfba91b199b0e67497db81f05dd1105c269712cb Author: Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun Dec 23 12:47:41 2007 +0100 x86 user_regset math_emu This converts the ptrace/signal accessors for i387 math_emu state to the user_regset interface style, and calls these from the old interfaces. It also cleans up math_emulate's ptrace check to be a single-step check, which is what it really wants. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :040000 040000 829c61799b4618522fabf435b2e1b7f4b338cebe 859f184810d1f504af20ba9919819fd41dbcd37c M arch I'm now waiting for others to confirm it (another user of that kernel-tree has also reported the same behavior): http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4667387.html#4667387 architecture: processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz stepping : 11 system: Portage 2.1.4_rc11 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0, gcc-4.2.2, glibc-2.7-r1, 2.6.24-rc6-ga25ef5f6-dirty x86_64 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.3 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r7 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0_rc6 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3, 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.22-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" keep up the good work ! it's my first run of bisect so sorry for any false-alarm caused by wrong handling - in advance ;) Mat -- 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/