Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750889AbWAOVS2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:18:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750893AbWAOVS2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:18:28 -0500 Received: from smtp-2.smtp.ucla.edu ([169.232.47.136]:65441 "EHLO smtp-2.smtp.ucla.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750889AbWAOVS1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:18:27 -0500 Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 13:18:20 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Stromsoe To: Willy Tarreau cc: Roberto Nibali , Alan Cox , Marcelo Tosatti , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: bad pmd filemap.c, oops; 2.4.30 and 2.4.32 In-Reply-To: <20060115121242.GA20277@w.ods.org> Message-ID: References: <20060105054348.GA28125@w.ods.org> <43BF8785.2010703@drugphish.ch> <43C2C482.6090904@drugphish.ch> <43C2E243.5000904@drugphish.ch> <20060115121242.GA20277@w.ods.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Probable-Spam: no X-Spam-Report: none Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1217 Lines: 30 On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 03:29:15AM -0800, Chris Stromsoe wrote: >> >> I've been running stable with the propsed changes since the 10th. The >> original config and the currently running config are both at >> . This is the diff: >> >> cbs@hashbrown:~ > diff config-2.4.32 config-2.4.32-20060115 >> >> 65c65 >> < CONFIG_HIGHIO=y >> --- >> > # CONFIG_HIGHIO is not set > > I wonder if this change could be suspected of affecting stability. With > this unset, data will be sent from the card to low memory, then bounced > to high mem when needed. Maybe the card, northbridge or anything else > sometimes corrupts memory during direct highmem I/O from PCI ? :-/ I'll let it run for another week as it is. If it would be useful information, I can switch CONFIG_HIGHIO back to =y and let that kernel run for a while. Otherwise, I'll probably switch permanently to 2.6. -Chris - 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/