Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.6.9-rc1-mm4 kjournald oops (repeatable) | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Wed, 08 Sep 2004 19:16:37 -0400 |
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On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 19:07, Richard A Nelson wrote: > On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Richard A Nelson wrote: > > > On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 10:04, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > > > Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6b6b6b93 > > > > > ... > > > > > EIP: 0060:[__journal_clean_checkpoint_list+199/240] Not tainted VLI > > > > > > > > This might have been caused by a fishy latency-reduction patch. I today > > > > dropped that patch so could you please test next -mm and let me know? > > > > > > That, or preempt. If the next -mm still breaks, time to hunt for the > > > preempt problem, I guess. > > > > Ok, if it still fails (I'll have to wait until this afternoon for the > > true test - dpkg breaks it everytime), I'll check out preempt. > > Well, it looks like backing out the patch was sufficient, I've made it > through the torture that is a dpkg install (70+meg). > > So we needn't (at this time) look to preempt.
Hmm, I have been running this patch for weeks as part of the voluntary preemption patches, and put it through every torture test I can think of, with nary an Oops. None of the other VP testers have reported problems either. Maybe this is some interaction between that patch and something else in -mm.
Lee
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