From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
davem@vger.kernel.org, akpm@zip.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Important per-cpu fix.
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 20:42:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020904034212.GW888@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020904023535.73D922C12D@lists.samba.org>
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 12:35:41PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Frankly, I'm amazed the kernel worked for long without this.
> Every linker script thinks the section is called .data.percpu.
> Without this patch, every CPU ends up sharing the same "per-cpu"
> variable.
> This might explain the wierd per-cpu problem reports from Andrew and
> Dave, and also that nagging feeling that I'm an idiot...
Hmm, 2.5.33 is doing some *really* weird crap. OTOH it doesn't appear
to be tripping the BUG() in softirq.c, and disks seem to be doing okay.
It survived 4 parallel mkfs's. I'll follow up with some kind of
bugreport on the PCI and/or starfire.c front in a separate post.
Cheers,
Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-04 3:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-04 2:35 [PATCH] Important per-cpu fix Rusty Russell
2002-09-04 2:54 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04 4:04 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-04 4:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-09-09 8:06 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-09 8:16 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04 5:05 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04 5:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-04 5:12 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04 6:00 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-04 6:06 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04 6:19 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04 7:38 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-06 9:57 ` Pavel Machek
2002-09-09 3:45 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-09 6:13 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-09 8:17 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-09 8:15 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-09 20:58 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-09 21:06 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-10 9:41 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-04 15:44 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-04 23:18 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04 2:56 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-04 2:46 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-04 3:42 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-05 9:10 Dipankar Sarma
2002-09-05 9:09 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-05 19:08 ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-09-05 19:11 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-09 12:17 Matthew Wilcox
2002-09-09 23:24 ` Rusty Russell
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