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From: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>, Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc5
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:00:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17653.21437.207484.526897@alkaid.it.uu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17653.11388.637189.113422@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

Paul Mackerras writes:
 > Olaf,
 > 
 > This patch should fix it.  The problem was that I was comparing a
 > 32-bit quantity with a 64-bit quantity, and consequently time wasn't
 > advancing.  This makes us use a 64-bit quantity on all platforms,
 > which ends up simplifying the code since we can now get rid of the
 > tb_last_stamp variable (which actually fixes another bug that Ben H
 > and I noticed while going carefully through the code).
 > 
 > This works fine on my G4 tibook.  Let me know how it goes on your
 > machines.

Thanks. This fixed a kernel hang bug on my G4 eMac with 2.6.18-rc5.

The vanilla kernel ran fine until I tar xvf'd a file from an NFS-mount,
then everything ground to a halt.

/Mikael

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-08-30  9:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-28  4:30 Linus Torvalds
2006-08-28  5:17 ` Marc Perkel
2006-08-28  5:52   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-08-28  6:13     ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-28  7:24       ` Prakash Punnoor
2006-08-28 12:05         ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-28 12:15           ` Prakash Punnoor
2006-08-28 16:02             ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-28  6:14 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-28  6:19   ` Olaf Hering
2006-08-28  6:24     ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-28 14:41       ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-08-28 22:01         ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-08-28  6:29   ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-28  7:25   ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-28  8:08     ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-08-28 17:20       ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-28 17:45         ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-08-28  8:05   ` Catalin Marinas
2006-08-28  8:25   ` Catalin Marinas
2006-08-28  8:34   ` Keith Owens
2006-08-28  8:42     ` Tejun Heo
2006-08-28 15:24       ` Keith Owens
2006-09-03  6:10         ` Tejun Heo
2006-09-06  6:42           ` Keith Owens
2006-09-13 14:41             ` Tejun Heo
2006-09-15  7:40           ` Keith Owens
2006-08-28  8:53   ` Beschorner Daniel
2006-08-28 15:26   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-08-29  2:01   ` Greg KH
2006-08-29  2:01   ` Greg KH
2006-08-29 14:50   ` Andreas Barth
2006-08-29 15:57   ` Brice Goglin
2006-08-30 15:54   ` Andrew Benton
2006-08-30 16:15     ` Takashi Iwai
2006-08-31  8:22       ` Takashi Iwai
2006-08-31  5:14   ` Len Brown
2006-09-02  1:40   ` Elias Holman
2006-09-02  1:50     ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-28 10:10 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-08-28 10:27   ` Kasper Sandberg
2006-08-28 10:35     ` Jesper Juhl
2006-08-28 22:36       ` Nathan Scott
2006-08-28 23:30         ` Jesper Juhl
2006-08-30  8:14           ` Kasper Sandberg
2006-08-30  9:19             ` Jesper Juhl
2006-08-30 13:43               ` Jesper Juhl
2006-09-06 12:21             ` Paul Slootman
2006-08-28 13:04 ` Roger Luethi
2006-08-29 11:55 ` Olaf Hering
2006-08-29 13:06   ` Nathan Lynch
2006-08-29 15:52     ` Olaf Hering
2006-08-30  6:13       ` Paul Mackerras
2006-08-30  8:05         ` Olaf Hering
2006-08-30  9:00         ` Mikael Pettersson [this message]
2006-08-28  9:50 Chuck Ebbert
2006-08-28 18:40 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-28 18:43   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-29  5:36 Chuck Ebbert

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