Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762409AbXJRESW (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:18:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751902AbXJRESN (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:18:13 -0400 Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:1321 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751899AbXJRESN (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:18:13 -0400 Message-ID: <4716DE82.2050006@rtr.ca> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:18:10 -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> <4716D6B1.8010309@rtr.ca> <4716DB9A.2060809@rtr.ca> In-Reply-To: <4716DB9A.2060809@rtr.ca> 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: 1341 Lines: 33 Mark Lord wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: >> >> On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Mark Lord wrote: >>> 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. >> >> In the meantime, does the patch I sent out help people? I'd like to >> get feedback, but I'm a lazy bum, and don't use DEBUG_PAGEALLOC >> myself, so I was hoping that people who actually see this could >> comment on my untested suggestion. > > Oh.. so this bug is supposed to only bite with DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y ?? > > Then something else is broken, perhaps. I just saw a long traceback > scroll off the top of the screen, with lots of bio_* functions in the list > and assumed it was the same bug. > > Mmm.. I'll get out the camera and try it again now.. Okay, mine is dying with EIP at blk_rq_map_sg+0xcb/0x160. Screen photo is at http://rtr.ca/recent/2.6.23-git12-crash.jpg, but the top was cut off (isn't there a new config option or patch to do double-columns or scrollback or something ???. Cheers - 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/