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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@oracle.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	John Levon <movement@marcelothewonderpenguin.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davej@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix 2.5.3pre reiserfs BUG() at boot time
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 15:54:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020128155404.B3711@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020125180149.GB45738@compsoc.man.ac.uk> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201251006220.1632-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> <20020125204911.A17190@wotan.suse.de> <20020125133814.U763@lynx.adilger.int> <20020125231555.A22583@wotan.suse.de> <3C54871E.80621B4E@oracle.com> <20020128010142.A23952@wotan.suse.de> <20020128120747.A837@suse.de> <20020128155337.A11950@wotan.suse.de>
In-Reply-To: <20020128155337.A11950@wotan.suse.de>

On Mon, Jan 28 2002, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 12:07:47PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 28 2002, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 12:02:54AM +0100, Alessandro Suardi wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > 2.5.3-pre5 + this patch still can't boot my system. I haven't had
> > > >  time to copy down oops at boot, will do if needed.
> > > 
> > > Please do. I cannot see anything in the patch that should prevent bootup
> > > though, so I would also recommend a make clean and recompile first just
> > > to make sure it isn't a broken build. 
> > 
> > Probably the kmem_cache_create 'name too long' bug that Viro pointed out
> > to me. fs/reiserfs/super.c:init_inodecache(). Change the name passed to
> > kmem_cache_create to something shorter.
> 
> The patch he tried removed the check of the name length ;) 

Heh, my cover is blown -- I didn't read it :-)

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-28 14:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-25 17:28 [PATCH] Fix 2.5.3pre reiserfs BUG() at boot time Andi Kleen
2002-01-25 18:01 ` John Levon
2002-01-25 18:08   ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-25 18:31     ` Andreas Dilger
2002-01-25 18:46     ` Hans Reiser
2002-01-25 19:49     ` Andi Kleen
2002-01-25 20:38       ` Andreas Dilger
2002-01-25 22:15         ` Andi Kleen
2002-01-25 22:32           ` eth0: NULL pointer encountered in RX ring, skipping Andrea Ferraris
2002-01-25 22:59             ` Jeff Garzik
2002-01-26 10:11               ` Andrea Ferraris
2002-01-26 15:24                 ` OPS: " Andrea Ferraris
2002-01-25 22:41           ` [PATCH] Fix 2.5.3pre reiserfs BUG() at boot time Andreas Dilger
2002-01-26  7:24           ` Kai Henningsen
2002-01-27 23:02           ` Alessandro Suardi
2002-01-28  0:01             ` Andi Kleen
2002-01-28 11:07               ` Jens Axboe
2002-01-28 14:53                 ` Andi Kleen
2002-01-28 14:54                   ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2002-01-29 13:14               ` Alessandro Suardi

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