Re: [Bug #12505] 2.6.29-rc1 Firefox crashing on page load

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Jan 20 2009 - 03:38:19 EST



* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

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> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > (added Cc:s)
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> > Justin, does it work if you apply the patch below instead of the revert?
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> hm, that patch wont build because the protect_asmlinkage macro is rather
> limited - it cannot deal with structure parameters.
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> We might be better off with a revert here, and a comment added that points
> out the problem.

Below is the revert+document commit that i have queued up.

Justin, could you try the tip/master tree (which has this fix included):

http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/README

does Firefox still work fine?

Ingo

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