Re: Linux 2.6.13-rc4 (snd-cs46xx)

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Cal Peake <cp@absolutedigital.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
>  > The procfs inode IDR tree is scrogged.  I'd be suspecting a random memory
>  > scribble.  I'd suggest that you enable CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB,
>  > CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, CONFIG_DEBUG_everything_else and retest.
>  > 
>  > If that doesn't show anything, try eliminating stuff from your kernel
>  > config.
>  > 
>  > If it _is_ a scribble then there's a good chance that changing the config
>  > will simply make it disappear, or will make it manifest in different ways.
> 
>  Thanks Andrew! Indeed your suspicions are correct. Adding in all the 
>  debugging moved the problem around, it now shows itself when probing 
>  parport. Upon further investigation reverting the commit below seems to 
>  have nixed the problem.
> 
>  [PATCH] speed up on find_first_bit for i386 (let compiler do the work)

Thanks a million for that.