From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Schmitz Subject: Re: build warnings Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:41:28 +1300 Message-ID: <4D465998.60006@gmail.com> References: <4D44F92C.2050707@gmail.com> <4D461512.8080609@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-pv0-f174.google.com ([74.125.83.174]:46894 "EHLO mail-pv0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754943Ab1AaGld (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jan 2011 01:41:33 -0500 Received: by pva4 with SMTP id 4so788091pva.19 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 22:41:33 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-m68k-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org To: Finn Thain Cc: Michael Schmitz , Geert Uytterhoeven , Thorsten Glaser , linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org Hi Finn, > I haven't compared the log from Thorsten's kernel failure with the > failures I saw, but (anecdotally) my experience was the same: SLUB on m68k > was not usable, going back some years. > > The introduction of the SLUB allocator was 2.6.22, but I can't help you > bisect because I don't recall that it worked ever (?) > Thanks for sharing that information - that does sound like quite a fundamental problem, and not just limited to Atari then. > Anyway, I do recall building SLUB kernels at the time that would fail more > often than they booted ... maybe the old releases could offer some clues? > At least they fail in a very consistent manner now. I wonder whether it's worth debugging this at all? Cheers, Michael