From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261609AbVG1Rpn (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:45:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261774AbVG1Rnj (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:43:39 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:8150 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261609AbVG1RmR (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:42:17 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:41:16 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm2 Message-Id: <20050728104116.26fb7bb2.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <93600000.1122562877@[10.10.2.4]> References: <20050727024330.78ee32c2.akpm@osdl.org> <93600000.1122562877@[10.10.2.4]> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Martin J. Bligh" wrote: > > Seems to have some odd problem on PPC64 - crashes on boot. > Seems to affect power 4 boxes, both LPAR and bare metal. > > raid5: using function: 32regs (4524.000 MB/sec) > md: md driver 0.90.2 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 > md: bitmap version 3.38 > oprofile: using ppc64/power4 performance monitoring. > NET: Registered protocol family 2 > IP route cache hash table entries: 2097152 (order: 12, 16777216 bytes) > Badness in nr_blockdev_pages at fs/block_dev.c:399 This should fix: --- devel/net/netlink/af_netlink.c~netlink-locking-fix 2005-07-27 14:10:07.000000000 -0700 +++ devel-akpm/net/netlink/af_netlink.c 2005-07-27 14:10:16.000000000 -0700 @@ -349,12 +349,12 @@ static int netlink_create(struct socket netlink_table_grab(); if (!nl_table[protocol].hash.entries) { - netlink_table_ungrab(); #ifdef CONFIG_KMOD /* We do 'best effort'. If we find a matching module, * it is loaded. If not, we don't return an error to * allow pure userspace<->userspace communication. -HW */ + netlink_table_ungrab(); request_module("net-pf-%d-proto-%d", PF_NETLINK, protocol); netlink_table_grab(); #endif _