linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.20.3

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Date:	Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:40:18 -0700
From:	Bill Irwin <bill.irwin@...cle.com>
To:	Nish Aravamudan <nish.aravamudan@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, greg@...ah.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...l.org, torvalds@...l.org,
	stable@...nel.org, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.20.3

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 05:29:17PM -0700, Nish Aravamudan wrote:
> Ok, truly bizarre, I found that I was not running stock 2.6.20.3, but
> had your small hugetlb patch on top.
> So I went back and patched 2.6.20.1 with your patch, rebooted, got a
> soft lockup. Went back to stock 2.6.20.1 and did not.
> I don't see how your patch (C&P below for reference) could make any
> difference...Especially because no hugepages were in use at the time.
> On patched 2.6.20.1, I was just trying to check if my source tree had
> your patch applied (by `patch -p1 < davem.patch`) and got the
> soft-lockup I saw in 2.6.20.3 with the patch applied. I am going to
> try a clean 2.6.20.3 as well, now.

I'm still trying to get on this.


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