Re: 2.6.9-rc1-mm4 kjournald oops (repeatable)

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 19:07, Richard A Nelson wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Richard A Nelson wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 10:04, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >
> > > > >   Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6b6b6b93
> > > > > ...
> > > > >   EIP: 0060:[__journal_clean_checkpoint_list+199/240]    Not tainted VLI
> > > >
> > > > This might have been caused by a fishy latency-reduction patch.  I today
> > > > dropped that patch so could you please test next -mm and let me know?
> > >
> > > That, or preempt.  If the next -mm still breaks, time to hunt for the
> > > preempt problem, I guess.
> >
> > Ok, if it still fails (I'll have to wait until this afternoon for the
> > true test - dpkg breaks it everytime), I'll check out preempt.
> 
> Well, it looks like backing out the patch was sufficient, I've made it
> through the torture that is a dpkg install (70+meg).
> 
> So we needn't (at this time) look to preempt.

Hmm, I have been running this patch for weeks as part of the voluntary
preemption patches, and put it through every torture test I can think
of, with nary an Oops.  None of the other VP testers have reported
problems either.  Maybe this is some interaction between that patch and
something else in -mm.

Lee