From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
cl@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu, sachinp@in.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] SLQB: Mark the allocator as broken PowerPC and S390
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:36:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090917123627.GP18404@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090917122141.GB5041@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 02:21:41PM +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 03:16:21PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 14:12 +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > > Ok, I just wanted to debug this on s390. But... the bug seems to have
> > > disappeared.
> > > I pulled in
> > >
> > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6.git slqb/core
> > >
> > > and tried defconfig (+SLQB) as well as allyesconfig (+SLQB). Both started and
> > > didn't show the crash-before-console-is-active which went away when switching
> > > to a different allocator.
> > > So the s390 restriction seems to be resolved. Don't know why...
> >
> > IIRC, this is the only bug fix that was merged after your report:
> >
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=ff61c4950125b09b5e5a83d48a6c81827e9d67ab
>
> Still works even if I revert that patch. Probably something else interfered.
Nasty. I don't suppose it would be too much work to try bisecting it?
Unfortunately with this kind of thing, bisecting doesn't always point
to anything meaningful anyway :(
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-17 12:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-16 6:37 Pekka Enberg
2009-09-16 6:55 ` David Rientjes
2009-09-16 7:01 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-16 8:04 ` Heiko Carstens
2009-09-17 10:08 ` Mel Gorman
2009-09-17 10:29 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-17 10:57 ` Mel Gorman
2009-09-17 11:13 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-17 11:18 ` Mel Gorman
2009-09-17 11:23 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-17 11:41 ` Nick Piggin
2009-09-17 18:18 ` Mel Gorman
2009-09-17 18:28 ` Nick Piggin
2009-09-17 18:38 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-09-17 18:51 ` Nick Piggin
2009-09-18 15:56 ` Mel Gorman
2009-09-17 11:23 ` Sachin Sant
2009-09-17 11:38 ` Nick Piggin
2009-09-17 11:43 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-17 11:52 ` Nick Piggin
2009-09-17 11:55 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-17 12:12 ` Heiko Carstens
2009-09-17 12:16 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-17 12:21 ` Heiko Carstens
2009-09-17 12:36 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2009-09-17 12:42 ` Pekka Enberg
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