From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262792AbULQMU2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Dec 2004 07:20:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262794AbULQMU2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Dec 2004 07:20:28 -0500 Received: from bay-bridge.veritas.com ([143.127.3.10]:5068 "EHLO MTVMIME03.enterprise.veritas.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262792AbULQMTS (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Dec 2004 07:19:18 -0500 Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:18:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Hugh Dickins X-X-Sender: hugh@localhost.localdomain To: William Lee Irwin III cc: Andrew Morton , Subject: Re: 2.6.10-rc3-mm1 In-Reply-To: <20041217120054.GT771@holomorphy.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > William Lee Irwin III 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