From: Ryan Nielsen <ran@krazynet.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <bh40@calva.net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Linux-2.2.0-pre5 SMP broken on PReP?
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 18:43:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990111184309.A87@gondolin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19990111172913.007726@mail.mipsys.com>; from Benjamin Herrenschmidt on Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 05:29:13PM +0100
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 1999, Ryan Nielsen <ran@krazynet.com> wrote:
>
> >it is crashing in kswapd, not the ncr driver.
> >
> >I got pre6 to work by reverse-patching the kswapd part of mm/vmscan.c down to
> >pre4
> >this is only needed for SMP...
>
> Linus posted some messages about this on the kernel ML, pre-7 should fix
> all that mess, the memory trashing may finally work fine after all ;-)
He didn't mention SMP/PPC/kswapd, as far as i saw, only try_to_free_pages() etc.
I tried pre-7.gz and it made no difference, reverse-patching kswapd still makes things work.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-01-12 2:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-07 18:55 Linux-2.2.0-pre5 SMP broken on PReP? Troy Benjegerdes
1999-01-11 12:26 ` Ryan Nielsen
1999-01-11 16:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
1999-01-12 2:43 ` Ryan Nielsen [this message]
1999-01-11 16:54 ` Troy Benjegerdes
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