linux-kernel - Re: Top kernel oopses/warnings for the week of Friday June 6th, 2008

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Date:	Sat, 7 Jun 2008 21:55:30 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: Top kernel oopses/warnings for the week of Friday June 6th,
 2008

On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 21:34:05 -0700 Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 11:58:16AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >
> > Rank 4: sysfs_add_one (warning)
> > 	Reported 242 times (992 total reports)
> > 	Duplicate sysfs registration in various components. We don't seem to be 
> > making progress on this
> > 	one unfortunately.
> > 	This warning was last seen in version 2.6.26-rc3, and first seen in 
> > 2.6.24-rc6.
> > 	More info: http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=sysfs_add_one
> 
> I really think this is solved for the USB subsystem at the least.  This
> will be hit by other code under development at times, when the developer
> gets something wrong.

For the sysfs vfs caches, yes.  But for sysfs pagecache (which I expect
is only symlinks?) the pages will still be on the LRU?

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