Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269196AbUIHXQg (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 19:16:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269199AbUIHXQg (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 19:16:36 -0400 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:40077 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S269196AbUIHXQe (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 19:16:34 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.6.9-rc1-mm4 kjournald oops (repeatable) From: Lee Revell To: Richard A Nelson Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel In-Reply-To: References: <20040908020402.3823a658.akpm@osdl.org> <1094635403.1985.12.camel@sisko.scot.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1094685396.1362.245.camel@krustophenia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 19:16:37 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1556 Lines: 38 On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 19:07, Richard A Nelson wrote: > On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Richard A Nelson wrote: > > > On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 10:04, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > > > Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6b6b6b93 > > > > > ... > > > > > EIP: 0060:[__journal_clean_checkpoint_list+199/240] Not tainted VLI > > > > > > > > This might have been caused by a fishy latency-reduction patch. I today > > > > dropped that patch so could you please test next -mm and let me know? > > > > > > That, or preempt. If the next -mm still breaks, time to hunt for the > > > preempt problem, I guess. > > > > Ok, if it still fails (I'll have to wait until this afternoon for the > > true test - dpkg breaks it everytime), I'll check out preempt. > > Well, it looks like backing out the patch was sufficient, I've made it > through the torture that is a dpkg install (70+meg). > > So we needn't (at this time) look to preempt. Hmm, I have been running this patch for weeks as part of the voluntary preemption patches, and put it through every torture test I can think of, with nary an Oops. None of the other VP testers have reported problems either. Maybe this is some interaction between that patch and something else in -mm. Lee - 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/