Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270668AbTGUSy4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:54:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270669AbTGUSy4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:54:56 -0400 Received: from mail3.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.7]:23450 "HELO heather-ng.ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S270668AbTGUSyy (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:54:54 -0400 X-Sender-Authentification: SMTPafterPOP by from 217.64.64.14 Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 21:09:54 +0200 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: mason@suse.com, andrea@suse.de, riel@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, maillist@jg555.com Subject: Re: Bug Report: 2.4.22-pre5: BUG in page_alloc (fwd) Message-Id: <20030721210954.644b20ba.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: References: <1058297936.4016.86.camel@tiny.suse.com> <20030718112758.1da7ab03.skraw@ithnet.com> <20030718145033.5ff05880.skraw@ithnet.com> <20030721104906.34ae042a.skraw@ithnet.com> <20030721170517.1dd1f910.skraw@ithnet.com> Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.3 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1367 Lines: 39 On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:23:53 -0300 (BRT) Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > Hello Marcelo, > > > > > > have you seen anything in your tests? My box just froze again after 3 > > > days during NFS action. This was with pre6, I am switching over to pre7. > > > > I managed to freeze the pre7 box within these few hours. There was no nfs > > involved, only tar-to-tape. > > You had NMI on, correct? Sysrq doesnt work, correct? Yes, that's right. > > I switched back to 2.4.21 to see if it is still stable. Is there a > > possibility that the i/o-scheduler has another flaw somewhere (just like > > during mount previously) ... > > It might be a problem in the IO scheduler, yes. > > Lets isolate the problems: If 2.4.21 doenst lockup, try 2.4.22-pre7 > without drivers/block/ll_rw_blk{.c,.h} changes. I am pretty confident that 2.4.21 does not lock up, I tested it long time ago and to my memory it had no problems. Anyway I re-check to make sure the box is still ok. Can you send me patches off-list to reverse from -pre7. Just to make sure we are talking of the same stuff... Regards, Stephan - 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/