Re: [PATCH] Fix VMI crash on boot in 2.6.27+ kernels

From: Zachary Amsden
Date: Wed Dec 10 2008 - 01:36:23 EST


On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 16:44 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 04:50:21PM -0800, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> > Patches backported into 2.6.27.4 caused a regression with VMI kernels
> > running on VMware which ends in a page fault during boot. I have a fix
> > which still allows DMI checks to be done early.
>
> Is this regression also present on 2.6.28-rc kernels as well?

Yes, I reproduced and fixed this on a git tree synced to mainline today.

Thanks,

Zach

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