On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 10:54:14PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:06:18 +0000 > Frederik Deweerdt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 06:11:08PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 18:00:49 -0800 > > > Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Frederik Deweerdt wrote: > > > > > This is a -mm1 kernel + your efl_offset fix + the attached patch. > > > > > So the problem came from putreg still saving %gs to the stack where > > > > > there's no slot for it, whereas getreg got things right. > > > > > > > > > > > > > That patch looks good, but I think it is already effectively in Andrew's > > > > queue, because I noticed some problems in there when I reviewed the > > > > convert-to-%fs patch. > > > > > > > > > > The below is what I have queued for urgent mainlining to address these > > > problems. > > > > > > Is it sufficient? > > > > > No, it's not. The patch below fixes the place where we get eflags, this > > triggered the "BUG while gdb'ing" reports. > > The one I sent was to fix a problem that only I reported, AFAIK: when > > you use gdb/ptrace to modify %fs, the value gets written in the wrong > > place (see gdb sessions). So, unless you have another patch fixing the > > way putreg() writes %fs, the patch[1] I sent should also be queued for > > mainline. > > OK, but you're using -mm, yes? And -mm has (the rather irritating) > convert-i386-pda-code-to-use-%fs.patch in it. > > So perhaps your fix is a -mm-only thing? > It is sorry, I mixed things up. BTW, your mails don't seem to make it to the lkml (see http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/22/10)
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