Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git

Mark Lord
2007-10-18T04:05:56Z

Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Mark Lord wrote:
>> It would be good to have something soon-ish.
>> This "dead at boot time" issue is impacting the general ability to test
>> patches against latest -git in time for the current merge window.
>
> In the meantime, does the patch I sent out help people? I'd like to get
> feedback, but I'm a lazy bum, and don't use DEBUG_PAGEALLOC myself, so I
> was hoping that people who actually see this could comment on my untested
> suggestion.

Oh.. so this bug is supposed to only bite with DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y ??

Then something else is broken, perhaps. I just saw a long traceback
scroll off the top of the screen, with lots of bio_* functions in the list
and assumed it was the same bug.

Mmm.. I'll get out the camera and try it again now..