From: "Lever, Charles" <Charles.Lever@netapp.com>
Subject: RE: 3 NFS client panics in 2.4.21. Fixed in 2.4.22?
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 07:15:35 -0700
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> > I've had 3 very similar panics on 3 seperate machines under=20
> 2.4.21. All
> > appear to be in the NFS client stack. All are SMP/Bigmem=20
> machines, and the
> > kernel was pretty close to vanilla. All machines are=20
> redhat-7.2 using ext3
> > filesystems.
> >
> > Before I hop on the latest kernel out of the hopper for production
> > systems, do you know if these are known/fixed bugs in=20
> 2.4.22 or in BK?
> >
> =20
> I'm afraid there is a critical bug in 2.4.22, please see the thread:
>=20
> [NFS] nfs errors clutter up logs after 2.4.20 -> 2.4.22-pre10
>=20
>=20
> I havn't tested it with 2.4.22-rc3 and rc4, but I didn't see=20
> anything in the=20
> changelog, that could fix it :-(

the "nfs errors clutter up logs" bug has nothing to do with these
oopses, as far as i can tell.

matt-  can you tell us a little about how you reproduce this problem?
have you ever seen it on UP or non-HIGHMEM systems?


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