Re: bad pmd filemap.c, oops; 2.4.30 and 2.4.32

[Chris Stromsoe <cbs@cts.ucla.edu>]

On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Chris Stromsoe wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Roberto Nibali wrote:
>
>>> That is the SCSI BIOS rev.  The machine is a Dell PowerEdge 2650 and 
>>> that's the onboard AIC 7899.  It comes up as "BIOS Build 25309".
>> 
>> Brain is engaged now, thanks ;). If you find time, could you maybe 
>> compile a 2.4.32 kernel using following config (slightly changed from 
>> yours):
>> 
>> http://www.drugphish.ch/patches/ratz/kernel/configs/config-2.4.32-chris_s
>
> If/when the current run with DEBUG_SLAB oopses, I'll reboot with the 
> config modifications.

I've been running stable with the propsed changes since the 10th.  The 
original config and the currently running config are both at 
<http://hashbrown.cts.ucla.edu/pub/oops-200512/>.  This is the diff:

cbs@hashbrown:~ > diff config-2.4.32 config-2.4.32-20060115

65c65
< CONFIG_HIGHIO=y
---
> # CONFIG_HIGHIO is not set
69c69
< CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32
---
> CONFIG_NR_CPUS=4
87c87
< CONFIG_ISA=y
---
> # CONFIG_ISA is not set
109c109
< # CONFIG_ACPI is not set
---
> CONFIG_ACPI=y
110a111,127
> CONFIG_ACPI_BUS=y
> CONFIG_ACPI_INTERPRETER=y
> CONFIG_ACPI_EC=y
> CONFIG_ACPI_POWER=y
> CONFIG_ACPI_PCI=y
> CONFIG_ACPI_MMCONFIG=y
> CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP=y
> CONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM=y
> # CONFIG_ACPI_AC is not set
> # CONFIG_ACPI_BATTERY is not set
> # CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON is not set
> # CONFIG_ACPI_FAN is not set
> # CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR is not set
> # CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL is not set
> # CONFIG_ACPI_ASUS is not set
> # CONFIG_ACPI_TOSHIBA is not set
> # CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG is not set
385c402
< # CONFIG_AIC7XXX_DEBUG_ENABLE is not set
---
> CONFIG_AIC7XXX_DEBUG_ENABLE=y
387c404
< # CONFIG_AIC7XXX_REG_PRETTY_PRINT is not set
---
> CONFIG_AIC7XXX_REG_PRETTY_PRINT=y
492,493d508
< # CONFIG_AT1700 is not set
< # CONFIG_DEPCA is not set
500d514
< # CONFIG_AC3200 is not set
585,589d598
< # Old CD-ROM drivers (not SCSI, not IDE)
< #
< # CONFIG_CD_NO_IDESCSI is not set
<
< #
864,865c873,874
< # CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM is not set
< # CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB is not set
---
> CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM=y
> CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB=y




-Chris