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Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 20:43:58 -0500
From: Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>
To: Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: test12-pre6
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Andrew Morton wrote:
> Wakko Warner wrote:
> > 
> > >  - pre6:
> > >     - Andrew Morton: exec_usermodehelper fixes
> > 
> > pre4 oopsed all over the place on my alpha with modules and autoloading
> > turned on as soon as it mounted / and freed unused memory.  I take it this
> > was seen on i386 as well?
> 
> No...  The problems showed themselves a little more subtly than that,
> although in the pre5 version there was potential for schedule_task tasks to
> be queued before the kernel thread which handles them was started.
> 
> This shouldn't normally be a problem, but it becomes a fatal problem if
> someone tries to schedule a task and then synchronously waits
> for it to complete, as the new exec_usermodehelper does.
> 
> This change didn't affect module loading per-se.  But the
> kernel does try to run /sbin/hotplug from deep within sys_insert_module
> and sys_delete_module, so they're related.
> 
> > Will try pre6.
> 
> Please.

test12pre6 boots on my alpha and it works with modules enabled (and
autoloading).  Now, if I could only reiserfs worked on alpha!

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