Subject: Re: 2.6.31-rc5-git2 crash [net/core/flow.c:flow_cache_new_hashrnd]

From: Sachin Sant <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:55:00 +0530

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> BTW. Corruption looks like bi_recs... ie, broken yaboot. This was fixed
> recently, yaboot would eventually crap over the kernel for certain sizes
> of the kernel image.
>
> 0x1010 = BI_FIRST
> 0x1013 = BI_BOOTLOADER_ID followed by 0x7961626f6f74 which is
> "yaboot" :-)
> 0x1016 = BI_MACHTYPE
>   
Was away from office for few days.

Thanks for the help. The machine under test is running
F11. I will try out the latest yaboot.

Thanks
-Sachin

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Sachin Sant
IBM Linux Technology Center
India Systems and Technology Labs
Bangalore, India
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