Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753321AbXFNOVY (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:21:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751829AbXFNOVO (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:21:14 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.93.40.71]:35877 "EHLO holomorphy.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751772AbXFNOVM (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:21:12 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:21:46 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Mark Fortescue Cc: Michal Piotrowski , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , LKML , Netdev , Dan Aloni , Chad Tindel , Jay Vosburgh , Stephen Hemminger , sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, David Miller , Mikael Pettersson , linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Pavel Machek , linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Greg Kroah-Hartman , Alex Riesen , Andi Kleen , discuss@x86-64.org, Ioan Ionita Subject: Re: [2/2] 2.6.22-rc4: known regressions v3 Message-ID: <20070614142146.GN15426@holomorphy.com> References: <46704923.1010009@googlemail.com> <46704C44.8020602@googlemail.com> <20070614020055.GL15426@holomorphy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 928 Lines: 20 On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 11:30:25AM +0100, Mark Fortescue wrote: > They apear as soon as simpleinit starts up. Somtimes I get to a login > prompt before seeing any. Other times, commands in the simpleinit rc > script fail. > They do apear to be random. If a command failes, you re-run the command > and it is OK. Commands seen to fail are basic (depmod, rm cat ..). > The test I did use the same binaries with both the OK and problem kernels > so it is not a change to the application code, it is definatly a kernel > issue. This sounds like it may be addressed by benh's ptep_set_access_flags() fixes. Those fixes are still in -mm, hopefully to hit mainline by 2.6.22. -- wli - 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/