Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:08:34 +0300 | | From | "Pekka Enberg" <> | | Subject | Re: kmalloc zero size changes break i386 |
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Hi Andi,
On 7/19/07, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote: > qemu testing and booting test machines with i386 kernels wasn't very successfull > with recent git kernels. I got either BUGs because of failing sysfs initialization > or oopses in kmalloc, but no user land. > > I bisected it down to this commit. > > To reproduce: try to boot a 386 defconfig kernel, compiled with gcc 4.1, in qemu
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> 6cb8f91320d3e720351c21741da795fed580b21b is first bad commit > commit 6cb8f91320d3e720351c21741da795fed580b21b > Author: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> > Date: Tue Jul 17 04:03:22 2007 -0700 > > Slab allocators: consistent ZERO_SIZE_PTR support and NULL result semantics
I have i386 defconfig kernel + qemu + busybox userland image + GCC 4.1.2 booting ok here. Did you manage to capture the oops? Is the userland image available somewhere?
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