From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750952AbWAOWyV (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:54:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750954AbWAOWyV (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:54:21 -0500 Received: from smtp-7.smtp.ucla.edu ([169.232.46.137]:59867 "EHLO smtp-7.smtp.ucla.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750951AbWAOWyU (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:54:20 -0500 Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 14:54:14 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Stromsoe To: Willy TARREAU cc: Roberto Nibali , Alan Cox , Marcelo Tosatti , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: bad pmd filemap.c, oops; 2.4.30 and 2.4.32 In-Reply-To: <20060115224642.GA10069@w.ods.org> Message-ID: References: <43BF8785.2010703@drugphish.ch> <43C2C482.6090904@drugphish.ch> <43C2E243.5000904@drugphish.ch> <20060115224642.GA10069@w.ods.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Probable-Spam: no X-Spam-Report: none Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Willy TARREAU wrote: > On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 02:38:51PM -0800, Chris Stromsoe wrote: >> On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Chris Stromsoe wrote: >>> 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 >>> . This is the diff: >> >> I made a mistake. >> >> The machine was /not/ booted into that config. It is running the >> original config from >> http://hashbrown.cts.ucla.edu/pub/oops-200512/config-2.4.32 with >> DEBUG_SLAB defined and "pci=noacpi" passed in on the command line. >> >> The config with HIGHIO disabled an ACPI=y has not been tested. > > Thanks for the precision. So logically we should expect it to break > sooner or later ? It is the same .config as one that crashed before, except that it has DEBUG_SLAB defined. If it does not crash, then adding pci=noacpi to the command fixes the problem for me. -Chris