Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 6 Dec 2000 20:43:58 -0500 | From | Wakko Warner <> | 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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