Yes, the reasons are very similar. Probably best just to wait for the patch to bubble through the pipeline. > -----Original Message----- > From: Bjorn Helgaas [mailto:bjorn.helgaas@xxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 8:49 AM > To: Moore, Robert > Cc: Luck, Tony; linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-ia64@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; > Thomas Renninger > Subject: Re: some new unaligned access while booting ia64 (HP rx2620) > > On Wednesday 15 March 2006 08:47, Moore, Robert wrote: > > They should be fixed in ACPICA version 20060217: > > > > Fixed a problem where several resource descriptor types could overrun > > the internal descriptor buffer due to size miscalculation: VendorShort, > > VendorLong, and Interrupt. This was noticed on IA64 machines, but could > > affect all platforms. > > Did you determine that the buffer overrun problem that caused > the slab corruption was the same thing that caused the unaligned > access messages? > > Can you point me to the patch? Or possibly a place to get the > 20060217 ACPICA and the previous version, so I can extract the > patch myself? I poked around the Intel ACPI web page, but could > only find the most recent ACPICA; there didn't seem to be any > history. > > Bjorn > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Bjorn Helgaas [mailto:bjorn.helgaas@xxxxxx] > > > Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 4:00 PM > > > To: Luck, Tony > > > Cc: linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-ia64@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Moore, > > Robert; > > > Thomas Renninger > > > Subject: Re: some new unaligned access while booting ia64 (HP rx2620) > > > > > > On Thursday 02 February 2006 12:46, Luck, Tony wrote: > > > > Booting a snapshot of Linus' tree this morning I saw a few (new?) > > > > kernel unaligned access warnings: > > > > > > > > ACPI: Subsystem revision 20060127 > > > > ACPI: Interpreter enabled > > > > ACPI: Using IOSAPIC for interrupt routing > > > > ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00) > > > > kernel unaligned access to 0xe00000407ec5a204, ip=0xa0000001003af8c0 > > > > kernel unaligned access to 0xe00000407ec5a23c, ip=0xa0000001003af8c0 > > > > kernel unaligned access to 0xe00000407ec5a28c, ip=0xa0000001003af8c0 > > > > kernel unaligned access to 0xe00000407ec5a1fc, ip=0xa0000001003ae6c1 > > > > kernel unaligned access to 0xe00000407ec5a204, ip=0xa0000001003ae6d1 > > > > ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.SBA0.PCI0._PRT] > > > > ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI1] (0000:20) > > > > > > Did we ever resolve this? Are we just waiting for new ACPI bits > > > to trickle into -mm and mainline? > > > > > > I'd like to see the patch for just this issue, because it affects > > > SLES10, and Novell might balk at a complete ACPI CA update, but > > > might take just the individual patch. > > > > > > Bjorn > > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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