From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 18:41:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 18:41:33 -0500 Received: from neon-gw.transmeta.com ([209.10.217.66]:2063 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 18:41:27 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) Subject: Re: gcc2.96 + prerelease BUG at inode.c:372 Date: 3 Jan 2001 15:40:23 -0800 Organization: Transmeta Corporation Message-ID: <930d97$83s$1@penguin.transmeta.com> In-Reply-To: <200101031919.f03JJQU13197@interno.emmenet.it> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article <200101031919.f03JJQU13197@interno.emmenet.it>, Diego Liziero wrote: > >->1: The sound module for my mad16 based card plays the bytes swapped > (the same module recompiled with egcs-2.91.66 works fine). Could you try to figure this one out a bit more? This sounds like a real compiler issue, whether it is because egcs just happens to get the right result for bogus kernel source, of whether gcc-2.96 has problems.. >->2: after two day under heavy load I've got the following BUG: > (I don't know if it's related to the compiler, that's why I'm reporting > this.) Unrelated. This one is a known bug that hits if you are a bit unlucky with a race on deleting the pages from the inode page-lists. Fixed in the current prerelease patches on ftp.kernel.org. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/