Re: 2.6.16-rc1-mm3

Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Yes. I think I have this one. It appears that the patch below is the
> trigger for all our recent panic woe's. The last of the testing should
> complete in the next few hours and I will be able to confirm that
> hypothesis; results so far are all good.
>
> reduce-size-of-percpudata-and-make-sure-per_cpuobject.patch

That patch did have some missed conversions, which might well explain the
crash.

Thanks for narrowing it down - I'll keep that patch in next -mm (and will
include the known fixups). Could you please boot test that? If we're
still in trouble, I'll drop it.

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