From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <07ab01c0da7e$8d645070$4b00000a@foolio1> From: "Eli Chen" To: "Brian Kuschak" , "'Gabriel Paubert'" Cc: "'Dan Malek'" , References: Subject: Re: dcache BUG() Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 17:57:43 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: No luck here. I checked the patched kernel running Brian's test after an hour and it had frozen up, with one de_put message. Eli ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Kuschak" To: "'Gabriel Paubert'" Cc: "'Dan Malek'" ; "Eli Chen" ; Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 5:44 PM Subject: RE: dcache BUG() > Hi Gabriel, > > I tried your patch, but as you expected it didn't fix the problem. I ran it > twice, once with my kernel as I got it from MontaVista, and once with the > atomic_set() function using regular stw (as it is in the offical sources, I > believe). > > In both cases I got the de_put messages in a few minutes, and once I got the > dentry BUG(). > > I think Eli might have had better luck, but I'm not sure how long he was > running the test. > > Regards, > Brian > > > > > Patch follows, it includes my previous patch. I don't think that it will > > solve your problem, unless you happen to use a preemptible kernel. > > While I was at it, I removed the useless stwcx. in transfer_to_handler. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/