Re: [crash, bisected] Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86_64: Fold pda into per cpu area

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Mike Travis wrote:
Mike Travis wrote:
... I'm still re-verifying that the source bits and config options
are identical (it was a later git-remote update), and that in fact it is
the gcc --version, but that may be the conclusion.
...

Yup, it's the gcc --version that makes the difference. GCC 4.2.0
couldn't
boot past the grub screen, GCC 4.2.4 made it to the login prompt.


IIRC, 4.2.0, 4.2.1 and 4.3.0 are known to miscompile the kernel in one
way or another, however, that is from memory so don't quote me on it.

-hpa

Great. That's what's been on my devel server for the past 3 or 4 months now...

[And it's a big shared server that I'm but a small ant wandering around on it. ;-)]
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