From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266558AbUG2HzW (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 03:55:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267191AbUG2HzW (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 03:55:22 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:9695 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266558AbUG2HzQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 03:55:16 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 09:54:29 +0200 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Chris Caputo Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: inode_unused list corruption in 2.4.26 - spin_lock problem? Message-ID: <20040729075429.GA15700@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: <20040729002535.GA5145@logos.cnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 11:27:41PM -0700, Chris Caputo wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > Changing the affinity writes new values to the IOAPIC registers, I can't see > > how that could interfere with the atomicity of a spinlock operation. I dont > > understand why you think irqbalance could affect anything. > > Because when I stop running irqbalance the crashes no longer happen. what is the irq distribution when you do that? Can you run irqbalance for a bit to make sure there's a static distribution of irq's and then disable it and see if it survives ? --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBCK01xULwo51rQBIRAiATAKCYFz29MmIgcc4JbL6WuegQ5JrCzgCgqeP+ vguwGF1sYuQw9lbMNL9xrKE= =Rcqz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr--