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SubjectRe: x86, nops settings result in kernel crash
----- Original Message -----
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 09:35:12AM -0400, Tomas Racek wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am writing a file system test which I execute in qemu with kernel
> > compiled from latest git sources and running it causes this error:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45971
> >
> > It works with v3.5, so I ran git bisect which pointed me to:
> >
> > d6250a3f12edb3a86db9598ffeca3de8b4a219e9 x86, nops: Missing break
> > resulting in incorrect selection on Intel
> >
> > To be quite honest, I don't understand this stuff much but I tried
> > to do some debugging and I figured out (I hope) that the crash is
> > caused by setting ideal_nops to p6_nops (k8_nops was used before
> > the break statement was added).
>
> Maybe I overlooked it or maybe it was implied but did you try
> reverting
> the patch and rerunning your test? Does it work ok then?
>

Yes, if I remove the break statement (introduced by this commit), it works fine.

Tomas

> Thanks.
>
> --
> Regards/Gruss,
> Boris.
>


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