From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965132AbXGSP6J (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:58:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S939810AbXGSP5s (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:57:48 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:37351 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S939813AbXGSP5q (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:57:46 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:57:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Andi Kleen cc: Christoph Lameter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kmalloc zero size changes break i386 In-Reply-To: <200707191201.35777.ak@suse.de> Message-ID: References: <200707191201.35777.ak@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Andi Kleen 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. Can you send in the oopses and BUGs? The bug is almost certainly not the commit you point to, but some bad kernel code that that commit just shows. Linus