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Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:43:06 +0200
From: "Luca Tettamanti" <kronos.it@gmail.com>
To: "Christian Borntraeger" <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] severe bug in 2.6.23+ kvm.git
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On 10/19/07, Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> Am Freitag, 19. Oktober 2007 schrieb Laurent Vivier:
> > Did you patch kvm.git with patch-2.6.23.1.bz2 or did you download
> > linux-2.6.23.1.tar.bz2 ?
> >
> > 2.6.23.1 corrects nothing except sata_mv...
>
> Yes I know. The question we tried to answer was: is the bug in 2.6.23 or was
> it introduced after 2.6.23, as kvm.git  already contains lots of post 2. 6.23
> stuff.
> Current state is:
>
> kvm.git with tag 2.6.23-rc6 works for days without a problem.
> 2.6.23.1 vanilla has survived and is currently still under test.
> kvm.git tag master killed our filesystem at least three times.since monday.

linus-git has at least one bug with SG chaining, but usually it just
hangs the machine. Patch is here:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/17/269

Luca