Re: 2.6.22.14 oops msg with commvault galaxy ?

[Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 09:04:00AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 10:13:19PM +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 08:24:37PM +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote:
> > > On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 09:15:01AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:03:17 -0500 Fortier,Vincent [Montreal] wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Ingo, can you look at this, please?
> > > > Vincent is getting oopses on 2.6.22.14-cfs-etch.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > We are looking into this bug now. I believe that the patch at
> > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119404922603293 should help.
> > > 
> > > I am working with Kay to get this ported.
> > > 
> > 
> > Hi Vincent,
> > 
> > Does the following patch help?
> > 
> > Kay/Greg, could you please review and add your Signed-off-by(s) as
> > required?
> 
> Um, why?  What is this patch for?  Where is it to be sent, to Linus for
> 2.6.24-final?  Or to the -stable tree?
> 

Hi Greg,

This is for 2.26.24-final, since Fair User scheduling is not yet there
in stable.

> > This is basically a port of the patch at
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119404922603293
> 
> Yeah, but that patch needs some other core kobject changes, right?
> 

Yep, there are some other changes that patch needed. We have worked
around them by using the existing functions in the current Linus tree.

> What exactly are you trying to fix here, the fact that this code never
> even worked?
> 

The code was not using the kobject API. Its been cleaned up now (I
hope!)

> And, please, we need some documentation for Documenatation/ABI/ on
> exactly what these sysfs files and tree is for.  Please add that now for
> Linus's tree.
> 

On to it, will send the patch asap.

> confused,
> 

hope i helped (in clearing it :) )

Thanks,
-- 
regards,
Dhaval