Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762909AbXJRDo7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:44:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760101AbXJRDov (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:44:51 -0400 Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:2992 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757548AbXJRDou (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:44:50 -0400 Message-ID: <4716D6B1.8010309@rtr.ca> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:44:49 -0400 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: David Miller , fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp, jens.axboe@oracle.com, mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, tomof@acm.org Subject: Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git References: <20071018080048O.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> <20071017.181907.63126798.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 749 Lines: 23 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, David Miller wrote: >> I believe that we have enough of a limited set of accessors to >> sg->page that we can more aggressively encode things in the lower >> bits. >> >> I'm thinking of encoding the low two bits of sg->page as >> follows: ... > Yes, that sounds sane. It would be good to have something soon-ish. This "dead at boot time" issue is impacting the general ability to test patches against latest -git in time for the current merge window. :) - 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/