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    SubjectRe: [REGRESSION] 4.2-rc2: early boot memory corruption from FPU rework

    * Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:

    > > The least we can do is detect that the kernel undersized the buffer and
    > > disable support for the features that do not fit. A very lightly tested patch
    > > to do that is attached. I'm not super eager to put that in to an -rc2 kernel
    > > though.
    >
    > Ok, this approach looks good to me as an interim fix. I'll give it a whirl on
    > older hardware. I agree with you that it needs to be sized dynamically.

    Hm, so this patch crashed the boot of 2 out of 3 systems that I tried :-/

    But it does not really matter, as I think the dynamic allocation is the right fix
    in any case (your last patch), so this patch should be moot.

    Thanks,

    Ingo


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