From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932594AbWFCHMi (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jun 2006 03:12:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932595AbWFCHMi (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jun 2006 03:12:38 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:5098 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932594AbWFCHMh (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jun 2006 03:12:37 -0400 Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 09:13:01 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: "Barry K. Nathan" Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: 2.6.17-rc5-mm2 Message-ID: <20060603071301.GB19257@elte.hu> References: <20060601014806.e86b3cc0.akpm@osdl.org> <986ed62e0606011758w348080ebn6e8430ec9e5b2ed3@mail.gmail.com> <20060601183836.d318950e.akpm@osdl.org> <986ed62e0606020614j363bd71bn7d1fba23b78571f3@mail.gmail.com> <20060602142009.GA10236@elte.hu> <986ed62e0606021101t6701d095ycd29c91885aaeec9@mail.gmail.com> <20060602205332.GA5022@elte.hu> <986ed62e0606021533n4c8954eeifd71f97611a4c7f@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <986ed62e0606021533n4c8954eeifd71f97611a4c7f@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-ELTE-SpamScore: -3.1 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-3.1 required=5.9 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_50 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.0.3 -3.3 ALL_TRUSTED Did not pass through any untrusted hosts 0.0 BAYES_50 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 40 to 60% [score: 0.5000] 0.2 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Barry K. Nathan wrote: > On 6/2/06, Ingo Molnar wrote: > >does it get any better if you remove: > > > >http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.17-rc5/2.6.17-rc5-mm2/broken-out/lock-validator-floppyc-irq-release-fix.patch > > > >? > > I won't be able to check until later today. With the tracing patch > added (for figuring out the warning at boot time), my kernel is about > 50-60K too large to fit on a 1.6MB floppy. I first need to see if I > can trim or modularize some fat from my kernel without affecting the > reproducibility of these bugs... (If all else fails, I'll probably add > a CD-RW drive to this box and boot kernels from that.) just disable FORCED_INLINING in the .config, turn on EMBEDDED and select OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE, and that should give you 30-40% of kernel size savings. Ingo