Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751542AbWCFCQY (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Mar 2006 21:16:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751545AbWCFCQY (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Mar 2006 21:16:24 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:33962 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751541AbWCFCQX (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Mar 2006 21:16:23 -0500 Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 18:12:49 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Ivan Kokshaysky , Richard Henderson , Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.16-rc5 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2170 Lines: 56 Ivan, rth, any ideas? Linus On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote: > > torvalds@osdl.org (Linus Torvalds) writes: > > Have I missed anything? Holler. And please keep reminding about any > > regressions since 2.6.15. > > As reported yesterday [1], the generic irq framework for alpha introduced > in commit 0595bf3bca9d9932a05b06dd438f40f01d27cd33 kills my box under > fairly heavy disk usage. I got a md raid 0 array stripped accross 3 scsi > disks and any kind of relatively intensive IOs (like md5sum or sha1sum > against iso files) kill the box immediately; either it panics in > kernel/exit.c:do_exit - the first three "unlikely" - or in > arch/alpha/mm/fault.c:do_page_fault "Unable to handle paging reguest at > some address"... > > Reverting it makes the box stable again (as it was under vanilla 2.6.15). > > Here's the commit detail: > > 0595bf3bca9d9932a05b06dd438f40f01d27cd33 is first bad commit > diff-tree 0595bf3bca9d9932a05b06dd438f40f01d27cd33 (from eee45269b0f5979c70bc151c6c2f4e5f4f5ababe) > Author: Ivan Kokshaysky > Date: Fri Jan 6 00:12:22 2006 -0800 > > [PATCH] Alpha: convert to generic irq framework (alpha part) > > Kconfig tweaks and tons of deletions. > > Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky > Cc: Christoph Hellwig > Cc: Richard Henderson > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton > Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds > > :040000 040000 ac127f16325bb65941bd38208325ab7821877f52 15d7d4d17a7c8cfb8fe53c29ded31ff9cf287534 M arch > :040000 040000 287f73cdf371b2b33cc48f1d876005aab29ff3de 29263093ae33ceccd6346b987870367bc8329f0a M include > > > [1] Problem on Alpha with "convert to generic irq framework" > Message-Id: <20060304111219.GA10532@localhost> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/3/4/31 > > -- > Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer > - 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/