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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: bruce@perens.com (Bruce Perens)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dwmw2@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Re: Crash-on-boot in init_l440gx SMP
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:57:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031120105728.16076bfe.rddunlap@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031120170150.GA21782@perens.com>

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 09:01:50 -0800 bruce@perens.com (Bruce Perens) wrote:

| Randy,
| 
| I ran this patch on my main server for two weeks. Just yesterday we had
| one kernel hang that I have no reason to believe is related to the patch,
| especially since it took two weeks to come up. We have had no other problems
| related to the kernel in that time.
| 
| Regarding the hang, it appears that disk I/O was blocked. I hit
| Ctrl-Alt-SysRequest-s, and it started working again. I'm sorry to have
| no other information on that.

Hi,

Linus merged a better patch for this here:
http://linus.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset@1.1396.4.1?nav=index.html|ChangeSet@-3w
or here:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/cset/cset-rddunlap@osdl.org%5Btorvalds%5D|ChangeSet|20031105003235|06865.txt


If you could test that patch, or just the latest patched version,
and let us know if there is still a problem, that would be Good.

Thanks,
--
~Randy
MOTD:  Always include version info.

      reply	other threads:[~2003-11-20 19:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-30 20:02 Bruce Perens
2003-10-31 19:48 ` [PATCH/RFC] " Randy.Dunlap
2003-10-31 20:09   ` Bruce Perens
2003-11-20 17:01   ` Bruce Perens
2003-11-20 18:57     ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]

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