Re: Lockup after logging out of X

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Tue May 08 2007 - 16:22:48 EST


On Tue, 08 May 2007 20:51:42 BST, Ken Moffat said:

> After trying git-bisect, it tells me:
> 0dbf7028c0c1f266c9631139450a1502d3cd457e is first bad commit
> commit 0dbf7028c0c1f266c9631139450a1502d3cd457e
> Author: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed May 2 19:27:07 2007 +0200
>
> [PATCH] x86: __pa and __pa_symbol address space separation
>
> Currently __pa_symbol is for use with symbols in the kernel address
> map and __pa is for use with pointers into the physical memory map.
> But the code is implemented so you can usually interchange the two.

I saw this same exact problem on my box back at 21-rc5-mm4, but didn't
report it here because Christoph Hellwig thinks such things are off-topic (as
I was seeing it with the NVidia driver).

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=117579249300455&w=2
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=89444

Sorry to see you hit a problem with the exact same patch with a Radeon card
a month later.




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