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Paul Mackerras writes: > Olaf, > > This patch should fix it. The problem was that I was comparing a > 32-bit quantity with a 64-bit quantity, and consequently time wasn't > advancing. This makes us use a 64-bit quantity on all platforms, > which ends up simplifying the code since we can now get rid of the > tb_last_stamp variable (which actually fixes another bug that Ben H > and I noticed while going carefully through the code). > > This works fine on my G4 tibook. Let me know how it goes on your > machines. Thanks. This fixed a kernel hang bug on my G4 eMac with 2.6.18-rc5. The vanilla kernel ran fine until I tar xvf'd a file from an NFS-mount, then everything ground to a halt. /Mikael - 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/ | |||||||||
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