Re: [2.6.27.4-5 stable regressions] Kernel boot early crash with low-64k reservation patches

From: Daniel Drake
Date: Tue Dec 09 2008 - 11:48:30 EST


Bruno Prémont wrote:
On a VMWare (ESX 3.5.0 Update 3) guest we get boot failure at the very
beginning of boot process. (Boot successful with 2.6.27.4, failing with
2.6.27.x where x > 4 or just adding the 5 patches below to 2.6.27.4)

State of config option
CONFIG_X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K=y
or
# CONFIG_X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K not set
does not make any difference.


BUG: Int 14: CR2 fbe00000
EDI c0385f65 ESI fbe00000 EBP c0385f80 ESP c0385f4c
EBX fbe00000 EDX 0000000e ECX 00000003 EAX fbe10000
err 00000000 EIP c0399f8d CS 00000062 flg 00010087
Stack: fbe10000 fbe00000 c0385f80 c038cb6d fc001340 00000001 00000000 00000000
00000000 c0385fbc c03875a7 00000000 c0385fcc c0385fc0 c0389447 00100000
00000000 00000000 00099800 c0380000 c0385fbc 00000000 00099800 c0380000

This is http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12167

Daniel

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