Re: 2.6.10-rc3-mm1

From: Hugh Dickins (hugh_at_veritas.com)
Date: 12/17/04

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    Date:	Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:18:52 +0000 (GMT)
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>

    On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
    > William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote:
    > >> The odd userspace programs failing are far more disturbing. They
    > >> suggest COW or something of similar gravity is broken on x86-64
    > >> by some new patch. The ioremap/pageattr issues are merely some
    > >> shutdown-time oops, which is rather minor in comparison, although
    > >> reported far more verbosely.
    >
    > On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:55:05PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
    > > Oh, I missed that. Did you apply the ioctl fix?
    >
    > Seems unlikely to be related, but I'll try it.

    Odd userspace programs failing? Andrew slipped Christoph Lameter's
    page scalability patches, including the various bugs we pointed out,
    into 2.6.10-rc3-mm1. I've not seen such failures with those patches
    (on i386 with < 4GB), but that's where I'd be looking for causes.

    Hugh

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