Re: [VM/MEMORY-SICKNESS] 2.4.15-pre7 kmem_cache_create invalid opcode

[Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>]

Jeff Merkey wrote:

>>Have you even looked at the kernel-source RPM ?
>>
> 
> Yes.  I based a Linux distribution on RedHat's 6.2 last year, and I am
> **VERY** familiar with your anaconda installer and kernel.src.rpm build
> modules.  I know the 7.X stuff got a hell of a lot better, but customers
> still have to sterilize the build area are your rpm gets installed in order
> to build external kernel modules.


<sigh>  Again, this isn't true.  I build modules against our 
kernel-source RPM tree all the time, and I *never* do a make distclean. 
  If I did, it would screw the tree permanently.  If you are basing your 
arguments about what you saw with 6.2, then you are sorely out of date 
(hell, that was still a 2.2 kernel system).  Things have improved a lot 
since then.  The one overridding rule of working with a tree like we 
ship though, is *NEVER* do anything in the tree itself.  That tree is 
assembled to provide *ALL* the kernel versions and includes for all the 
kernels we ship.  However, even doing a make dep in the tree will blow 
important parts away.  Download my module build kit and see what I'm 
talking about because you currently obviously *don't* know what I'm 
talking about.




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