Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Jul 2015 10:51:55 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [REGRESSION] 4.2-rc2: early boot memory corruption from FPU rework |
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* 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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