From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: 2.6.30-rc2-git2: Reported regressions from 2.6.29 Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:25:44 +0200 Message-ID: <20090417012544.GB16126@elte.hu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds , Arjan van de Ven Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Adrian Bunk , Andrew Morton , Natalie Protasevich , Kernel Testers List , Network Development , Linux ACPI , Linux PM List , Linux SCSI List List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org * Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > I think you put this in the wrong regression pile: > > > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13112 > > Subject : Oops in drain_array > > Submitter : Bart > > Date : 2009-04-14 10:21 (3 days old) > > References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123970493224628&w=4 > > Hmm. This one seems like it should be in the "since 2.6.28" camp, since if > I read that one right, it happens with 2.6.29.1. > > (I mean sure, it might be new since 2.6.29, but it sounds more likely that > it's already in 2.6.29) I'd suspect it's possibly hardware related: http://www.kerneloops.org/search.php?search=free_block&btnG=Function+Search Look at the very similar call signatures - spanning almost all kernels back to v2.6.16. There's one spike at .27 - perhaps the same box trying up hard and crashing several times - or a popular distro kernel? Or it's a really ancient bug going back to v2.6.16. Ingo