Re: 2.5.41-mm2

Dave Hansen
2002-10-10T06:44:17Z

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>> Ingo's original per-cpu-pages patch was said to be mainly beneficial
>> for web-serving type things, but no specweb testing has been possible
>> for a week or two due to oopses in the timer code.
>
> i sent my latest timer patch to Dave Hansen but have not heard back since.
> I've attached the latest patch, this kernel also printks a bit more when
> it sees invalid timer usage.
>
> in any case, the oops Dave was seeing i believe was fixed by Linus (the
> PgUp fix), and it was in the keyboard code. If there's anything else still
> going on then the attached patch should either fix it or provide further
> clues.

Sorry, I haven't had a chance to test it yet. The Specweb setup likes
to eat ethernet cards and I haven't put in replacements yet. I'll try
and get some time in on it tomorrow.

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Dave Hansen
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