From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753041AbYIVJvs (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:51:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751739AbYIVJvk (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:51:40 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:59124 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751733AbYIVJvk (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:51:40 -0400 Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:51:11 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Gerhard Brauer Cc: "Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" , Mathieu Desnoyers , "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.{26.2,27-rc} oops on virtualbox Message-ID: <20080922095111.GF17258@elte.hu> References: <20080826171822.GB14906@Krystal> <20080826150222.0cf1542c@doriath.conectiva> <20080826181558.GA16887@Krystal> <20080826203449.GD5300@tux1.brauer.lan> <20080827161346.35b48d75@doriath.conectiva> <20080827233328.GC25531@Krystal> <20080828103013.163730ee@doriath.conectiva> <20080831092923.GB4305@tux1.brauer.lan> <20080831110942.7acaf82f@mandriva.com.br> <1222004499.4060.16.camel@tux1.brauer.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1222004499.4060.16.camel@tux1.brauer.lan> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0050] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Gerhard Brauer wrote: > Am Sonntag, den 31.08.2008, 11:09 -0300 schrieb Luiz Fernando N. > Capitulino: > > > Mandriva kernel was 2.6.26.3 based at the time I started testing > > this and all my last tests have been done on 2.6.27-rc4. I think it's > > very unusual to have a change in a -stable kernel not present in the > > latest -rc. > > I was away the last days, but i notice that the virtualbox update to > 2.0.2 solve all problems i mentioned. We also have same responses from > other arch users. > I never saw the "early boot oops" (this have had gone still with our > kernel update, mystical....). But also the "heavy IO oops" has gone. So > it was a virtualbox problem, they fixed it in: > http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/1875 > > So from my side this is solved. great - the VirtualBox recompiler didnt notice the paravirt code modification sequence. Any Linux kernel side NOP issue (which caused that early oops) should be solved in 2.6.27-rc7 as well. so the combo of 2.0.2 and later VirtualBox plus v2.6.27-rc7 and later should have no known bugs. Ingo