Re: [GIT PULL] SLAB changes for v2.6.39-rc1

[Ingo Molnar]

* Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> >
> >> > this_cpu_cmpxchg16b_emu:
> >> >         pushf
> >> >         cli
> >> >
> >> >         cmpq %gs:(%rsi), %rax
> >
> >> Random guess
> >>
> >> Masking interrupts, and accessing vmalloc() based memory for the first
> >> time ?
> >
> > Hmmm.. Could be. KVM would not really disable interrupts so this may
> > explain that the test case works here.
> >
> > Simple fix would be to do a load before the cli I guess.
> 
> Btw, I tried Ingo's .config and it doesn't boot here so it's somehow
> .config related.

did you get a similar early crash as i? I'd not expect my .config to have all 
the drivers that are needed on your box.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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