From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 02:39:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 02:39:10 -0400 Received: from e6.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.106]:12421 "EHLO e6.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 02:39:08 -0400 Message-ID: <3DA521C1.2060707@us.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 23:44:17 -0700 From: Dave Hansen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE5.5; Windows 98; X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Andrew Morton , lkml , "linux-mm@kvack.org" Subject: Re: 2.5.41-mm2 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ingo Molnar wrote: > On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Andrew Morton wrote: > >> Ingo's original per-cpu-pages patch was said to be mainly beneficial >> for web-serving type things, but no specweb testing has been possible >> for a week or two due to oopses in the timer code. > > i sent my latest timer patch to Dave Hansen but have not heard back since. > I've attached the latest patch, this kernel also printks a bit more when > it sees invalid timer usage. > > in any case, the oops Dave was seeing i believe was fixed by Linus (the > PgUp fix), and it was in the keyboard code. If there's anything else still > going on then the attached patch should either fix it or provide further > clues. Sorry, I haven't had a chance to test it yet. The Specweb setup likes to eat ethernet cards and I haven't put in replacements yet. I'll try and get some time in on it tomorrow. -- Dave Hansen haveblue@us.ibm.com