From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268755AbUHTVdK (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 17:33:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268759AbUHTVdJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 17:33:09 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:30699 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268755AbUHTVdH (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 17:33:07 -0400 Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 14:35:54 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Ingo Molnar Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, nathanl@austin.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vatsa@in.ibm.com Subject: Re: 2.6.8.1-mm2 Message-Id: <20040820143554.59979df9.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040820083322.GA8392@elte.hu> References: <20040819014204.2d412e9b.akpm@osdl.org> <1092964083.4946.7.camel@biclops.private.network> <20040819181603.700a9a0e.akpm@osdl.org> <1092987650.28849.349.camel@bach> <20040820083322.GA8392@elte.hu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Rusty Russell wrote: > > > Nathan, can you revert that, and apply this? This actually fixes the > > might_sleep problem, and should fix at least the problem Vatsa saw. > > If it doesn't solve your problem, we need to look again. > > i've attached a much simpler replacement: dont allow CPU hotplug during > self-reap. I got this patch into -mm3, but at the expense of one of Rusty's earlier patches. Could you and Rusty please carefully review what we have in -mm3 and make sure that everything is now shipshape?