Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:28:25 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-git2: Oracle 11g VKTM process enters R state on startup
	and is unkillable [still broken in 2.6.25-rc1]
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* Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > ok, we just found the reason for the 8-way crash, the delta fix 
> > > from Peter is below if any of you have tried the previous combo 
> > > patch. Updated sched.git as well, new HEAD is 
> > > fec13e45305d69fd0bd23b30bd05a0a42cf341f8.
> >
> > With the previous patch and this patch applied, the issue is not 
> > reproducible here.
> 
> The problem is fixed for me as well with the previous patch + the 
> patch below, VKTM now enters S state and Oracle shuts down properly 
> again.

thanks alot for testing this. The scheduler queue is now looking good in 
testing, will probably send a pull request to Linus later today.

	Ingo
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