Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 14:49:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 14:49:44 -0500 Received: from mail3.aracnet.com ([216.99.193.38]:17319 "EHLO mail3.aracnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 14:49:27 -0500 Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 11:51:53 -0800 From: Hanna V Linder Reply-To: Hanna V Linder To: Paul Menage , viro@math.psu.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org cc: Hanna Linder Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.6 Fast Walk Dcache (improved) Message-ID: <3031260852.1015761112@[10.10.2.2]> In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.1 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --On Friday, March 08, 2002 6:59 PM -0800 Paul Menage wrote: >> I've reworked the patch somewhat to give the following features: >> > > Oops - that was a slightly non-functional version of the patch, as > exec_permission_lite() had somehow got renamed to exec_permission(). > > Here's the correct one. > > diff -daur linux-2.5.6/fs/dcache.c linux-2.5.6.dcache/fs/dcache.c Hi Paul, There seems to be a problem while booting with this patch applied on an 8-way SMP (.config available). Here is where the boot process stops: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 232k freed INIT: version 2.78 booting Welcome to Red Hat Linux Press 'I' to enter interactive startup. Mounting proc filesystem: [ OK ] Configuring kernel parameters: [ OK ] modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.5.6/modules.dep (No such file or directory) Setting clock (localtime): Sun Mar 10 11:10:27 PST 2002 [ OK ] Loading default keymap (us): [ OK ] Hanna - 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/