Re: Fw: hwinfo problem since 2.6.28

From: Beschorner Daniel
Date: Fri Jan 09 2009 - 18:11:44 EST


> > > Since 2.6.28 my hwinfo tool crashes badly on 2 years old
> OpenSuSE 10.2
> > > x64/SMP.
> > > Older kernels run fine, I did a "make oldconfig" and rather used
> > > defaults (just skipping low-64k checks).
> > > This seems to be the only affected binary as far I can see.
> > > Did I miss a new legacy/compat option or is it a bug?
> > >
> > > Thank you!
> > > Daniel
> > >
> > > hwinfo: Corrupted page table at address 7fd04de3ec00
> > > PGD 7dc33067 PUD 3efe067 PMD 27b83067 PTE fffffffffffffbff
> > > Bad pagetable: 000d [#9] SMP
>
> Daniel, Can you please check and ack if the appended patch fixes this
> page table corruption issue? We tried to reproduce your issue
> locally here but didn't succeed because of different hwinfo versions.
>
> thanks,
> suresh
> ---

Works great! hwinfo runs fine again.

Thank you!
Daniel
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