Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423092AbXBUUYg (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:24:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423094AbXBUUYg (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:24:36 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:41374 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423092AbXBUUYf (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:24:35 -0500 Message-ID: <45DCA9CC.1070208@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:21:32 -0500 From: Chuck Ebbert Organization: Red Hat User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070212) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Eric W. Biederman" CC: Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, Justin Forbes , Zwane Mwaikambo , "Theodore Ts'o" , Randy Dunlap , Dave Jones , Chuck Wolber , Chris Wedgwood , Michael Krufky , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Subject: Re: [patch 00/21] 2.6.19-stable review References: <20070221013619.GA30227@kroah.com> <45DC9E1D.40805@redhat.com> <20070221114737.a09be761.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: 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: 1356 Lines: 33 Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Andrew Morton writes: > >> On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:31:41 -0500 >> Chuck Ebbert wrote: >>> What is the status of: >>> >>> >> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20/2.6.20-mm2/broken-out/x86_64-mm-simplfy-__assign_irq_vector.patch >> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20/2.6.20-mm2/broken-out/x86_64-mm-handle-irqs-pending-in-irr-during-irq-migration.patch >> >> That's mainly an Andi decision. Let's cc him. >> >>> They fix a serious bug that causes machines to freeze up >>> or just run very slowly. >>> >>> I'd like to see these in -stable if possible. >> They're not even in mainline yet. > > If you don't have it you at least want the patch below. It generally > makes the bug non-fatal. > > I'm still working my way through possible fixes... Although the > patch in question is close, and normally fixes it in my utmost > paranoia I can still find problems with it. We've tested it and found no problems so far. It's definitely better than what's there now. :) - 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/