Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 07:27:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 07:27:49 -0400 Received: from e6.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.106]:65506 "EHLO e6.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 07:27:48 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 17:15:28 +0530 From: Maneesh Soni To: Andrew Morton Cc: Helge Hafting , lkml Subject: Re: [long]2.5.44-mm3 UP went into unexpected trashing Message-ID: <20021024171528.D5311@in.ibm.com> Reply-To: maneesh@in.ibm.com References: <3DB7A581.9214EFCC@aitel.hist.no> <3DB7A80C.7D13C750@digeo.com> <3DB7AC97.D31A3CB2@digeo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3DB7AC97.D31A3CB2@digeo.com>; from akpm@digeo.com on Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 08:22:07AM +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 817 Lines: 26 On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 08:22:07AM +0000, Andrew Morton wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > Hopefully the rcu fix in -mm4 will cure this. > > Oh. It was in -mm3 too. But something went wrong with the > dcache shrinking there. Backing out larger-cpu-masks.patch fixes this in -mm3 so, -mm4 should not give this problem. Basically callbacks are not getting processed due to incorrect rcu_cpu_mask. Maneesh -- Maneesh Soni IBM Linux Technology Center, IBM India Software Lab, Bangalore. Phone: +91-80-5044999 email: maneesh@in.ibm.com http://lse.sourceforge.net/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/