Re: 2.6.14-rc3-rt2

[Ingo Molnar]

* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Found the problem.  You're using a 64 bit machine and flags in the 
> acpi code is defined as u32 and not unsigned long.  Ingo's tests put 
> some checks in the flags at the MSBs and these are being truncated.

ahh ... I would not be surprised if this caused actual problems on x64 
in the upstream kernel too: using save_flags() over u32 will corrupt a 
word on the stack ...

Andi?

	Ingo
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