From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: [2/2] 2.6.22-rc4: known regressions v3 Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:21:46 -0700 Message-ID: <20070614142146.GN15426@holomorphy.com> References: <46704923.1010009@googlemail.com> <46704C44.8020602@googlemail.com> <20070614020055.GL15426@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Michal Piotrowski , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , LKML , Netdev , Dan Aloni , Chad Tindel , Jay Vosburgh , Stephen Hemminger , sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, David Miller , Mikael Pettersson , linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Pavel Machek , linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Greg Kroah-Hartman , Alex Riesen , Andi Kleen , discuss@x86-64.org, Ioan Ionita To: Mark Fortescue Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: sparclinux-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 11:30:25AM +0100, Mark Fortescue wrote: > They apear as soon as simpleinit starts up. Somtimes I get to a login > prompt before seeing any. Other times, commands in the simpleinit rc > script fail. > They do apear to be random. If a command failes, you re-run the command > and it is OK. Commands seen to fail are basic (depmod, rm cat ..). > The test I did use the same binaries with both the OK and problem kernels > so it is not a change to the application code, it is definatly a kernel > issue. This sounds like it may be addressed by benh's ptep_set_access_flags() fixes. Those fixes are still in -mm, hopefully to hit mainline by 2.6.22. -- wli