From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964880AbWDZV1I (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:27:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964881AbWDZV1I (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:27:08 -0400 Received: from cassarossa.samfundet.no ([129.241.93.19]:53143 "EHLO cassarossa.samfundet.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964880AbWDZV1G (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:27:06 -0400 Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:26:59 +0200 From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" To: Andrew Morton Cc: neilb@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove softlockup from invalidate_mapping_pages. Message-ID: <20060426212659.GA15770@uio.no> References: <20060420160549.7637.patches@notabene> <1060420062955.7727@suse.de> <20060420003839.1a41c36f.akpm@osdl.org> <20060426204809.GA15462@uio.no> <20060426135809.10a37ec3.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060426135809.10a37ec3.akpm@osdl.org> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.6.14.3 on a x86_64 X-Message-Flag: Outlook? --> http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 01:58:09PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > It had a silly bug. Fixed version: Thanks, that boots. Of course, since I've only seen the RAID-5 hang bug once ever, I've got no idea whether it actually fixes it, but I guess that if the machine is stable for a week or so, it actually fixes my kswapd problem too :-) Oddly enough, I've seen other oopses on 2.6 with amd64 and software RAID (http://blog.madduck.net/geek/2006.01.07-kernel-oops.html) involving invalidate_mapping_page somehow. I wonder if there's a trend here somewhere or if I'm just into conspiracy theories... /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/