From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ryan Nielsen Message-ID: <19990111184309.A87@gondolin> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 18:43:09 -0800 To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Linux-2.2.0-pre5 SMP broken on PReP? References: <19990111042611.A152@gondolin> <19990111172913.007726@mail.mipsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <19990111172913.007726@mail.mipsys.com>; from Benjamin Herrenschmidt on Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 05:29:13PM +0100 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 1999, Ryan Nielsen wrote: > > >it is crashing in kswapd, not the ncr driver. > > > >I got pre6 to work by reverse-patching the kswapd part of mm/vmscan.c down to > >pre4 > >this is only needed for SMP... > > Linus posted some messages about this on the kernel ML, pre-7 should fix > all that mess, the memory trashing may finally work fine after all ;-) He didn't mention SMP/PPC/kswapd, as far as i saw, only try_to_free_pages() etc. I tried pre-7.gz and it made no difference, reverse-patching kswapd still makes things work. [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. To unsubscribe from linuxppc-dev, send ]] [[ the message 'unsubscribe' to linuxppc-dev-request@lists.linuxppc.org ]]