Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 3 Jun 2006 16:29:12 +0100 (IST) | From | Mel Gorman <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.17-rc5-mm2 |
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On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 19:38:36 +0100 (IST) > Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> wrote: > >> This reliably goes kablam on an x86_64 machine with a tg3 network card >> which was also happening for 2.6.17-rc5-mm1. A patch bisect found that >> reversing git-net.patch and git-net-git-klibc-fixup.patch on top of >> the -mm3 got rid of the problem. Don't ask me why. >> >> The console log I have of the most common oops is below and the .config >> used is attached. The oops happens reliably but at varying times and not >> always the same oops either. Usually sshing into the machine and compiling >> the kernel is enough. On at least one occasion, sshing to the machine >> triggered it. > > Yeah, sorry. I _knew_ LLC was buggy but I forgot to mention it in the > release notes and wasted heaps of lots of people's time. Feel free to > bill me :(
Nah, it gave me something handy to do on a Friday :)
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.17-rc5/2.6.17-rc5-mm2/hot-fixes/git-net-llc-fix.patch > > should fix. >
Confirmed. The machine passed some fairly basic tests it was failing on before.
-- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab - 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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