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Message-ID: <18491.8218.574435.741417@frecb006361.adech.frec.bull.fr>
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 22:39:54 +0200
From: Solofo.Ramangalahy@...l.net
To: nicholas.dokos@...com
Cc: cmm@...ibm.com, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Soft lockups in mballoc code
Nick Dokos writes:
> No, I am not seeing them any more
Good!
> So it seems to be entirely caused by my bad choice of a config file.
I don't see anything wrong with what you did.
> As a matter of good practice, is defconfig+ext4dev the best way of
> producing a kernel for ext4 testing purposes?
No, I don't think so. I have used it because this is reasonably fast
to compile.
I don't think there is a best single .config for testing ext4 (but
let's see what other think).
Using .config from distributions is fine since it is the way some
users get ext4 (that's why I tested Fedora 9 too).
Using other ways is also fine since it increases testing coverage.
> Are there any settings
> that should be added/delete/modified from the default?
Yes, for example, defconfig lacks options from the "Kernel Hacking"
section for testability which are mentionned e.g. in
Documentation/SubmitChecklist.
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solofo
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