Re: 2.6.16-rc5-mm1

Laurent Riffard
2006-03-01T14:50:23Z

Le 01.03.2006 14:58, Mike Galbraith a écrit :
> On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 02:32 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>>Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr> wrote:
>>
>>>Le 01.03.2006 01:21, Andrew Morton a écrit :
>>> > Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >>BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000034
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > I booted that thing on five machines, four architectures :(
>>> >
>>> > Could people please test a couple more patchsets, see if we can isolate it?
>>> >
>>> > http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/2.6.16-rc5-mm1.1.gz
>>> >
>>> > is 2.6.16-rc5-mm1 minus:
>>> >
>>> > proc-make-proc_numbuf-the-buffer-size-for-holding-a.patch
>>> > tref-implement-task-references.patch
>>> > proc-dont-lock-task_structs-indefinitely.patch
>>> > proc-dont-lock-task_structs-indefinitely-git-nfs-fix.patch
>>> > proc-dont-lock-task_structs-indefinitely-cpuset-fix.patch
>>> > proc-optimize-proc_check_dentry_visible.patch
>>>
>>> Ok, 2.6.16-rc5-mm1.1 works for me:
>>> - I can run java from command line in runlevel 1
>>> - I can launch Mozilla in X
>>
>>Useful, thanks. So the second batch of /proc patches are indeed the problem.
>>
>>If you have (even more) time you could test
>>http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/2.6.16-rc5-mm2-pre1.gz.
>>That's the latest of everything with the problematic sysfs patches reverted
>>and Eric's recent /proc fixes.
>
>
> Seems to work OK here, with debug settings as in Paul Jackson's report.
> No java crash, no fuser -n tcp NNNN crash. Only thing I see so far is
> the proc symbolic link to nirvana permissions thingie. Box is P4 HT.
>
> -Mike
>

2.6.16-rc5-mm2-pre1 works fine for me except numerous "BUG: warning at fs/inotify.c:533/inotify_d_instantiate()".

Thanks
--
laurent