Re: [Xen-devel] 100% reliable oops on Xen 4.1.3 (initially reported on 4.0.1)

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 29.01.13 at 23:21, Peter Moody <pmoody@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Peter Moody <pmoody@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Peter Moody <pmoody@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 3:38 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sure - the code in question wants to run with interrupts enabled,
>>>> but they aren't for (I think) quite obvious a reason:
>>>> arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S:auditsys_exit has hard STI/CLI in it,
>>>> when those really should be ENABLE_INTERRUPTS() and
>>>> DISABLE_INTERRUPTS() respectively. Does the below help?
>>>
>>> I'll test this when I get home tonight. This is for the guest kernel, right?
>>
>> I just tested on one of my previously crashing work machines and this
>> looks good. Thanks again!
> 
> poor form to keep replying to myself here but, is this patch something
> that would make it back into linus' tree from here or is there a more
> appropriate forum where I should push this?

Just sent this upstream, with you Cc-ed so you can see eventual
progress. Hopefully older stable trees will also pick this up sooner
or later.

Jan


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