From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261393AbTDHQ37 (for ); Tue, 8 Apr 2003 12:29:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261469AbTDHQ37 (for ); Tue, 8 Apr 2003 12:29:59 -0400 Received: from golf.rb.xcalibre.co.uk ([217.8.240.16]:45842 "EHLO golf.rb.xcalibre.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261393AbTDHQ35 (for ); Tue, 8 Apr 2003 12:29:57 -0400 Envelope-to: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Alistair Strachan To: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.5.67-mm1 Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 17:41:10 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200304081741.10129.alistair@devzero.co.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, > . sparc64 is now using gcc-3.x, so there is a patch here to make > gcc-2.95 the minimum required version. > > . A few rmap-speedup patches reduce the rmap CPU tax by 25-30% on a P4 > > . Various other cleaups, speedups and fixups. On attempting to boot this kernel, I get the following just before init: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05 2.5.67 base works fine. I discovered that reverting the following patches allows me to boot. I can increase the granularity of my search if nothing comes immediately to mind: aggregated-disk-stats.patch dynamic-hd_struct-allocation-fixes.patch dynamic-hd_struct-allocation.patch I reverted the aggregated-xx patch because it depends on the dynamic hd_struct work in a single line; + struct hd_struct *hd = gp->part[n]; Therefore it may not be this patch that is the source of the problem, but I backed it out anyway. Cheers, Alistair Strachan.