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Message-Id: <200712202129.07192.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>
Date:	Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:29:07 +0100
From:	"Hemmann, Volker Armin" <volker.armin.hemmann@...clausthal.de>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: almost daily Kernel oops with 2.6.23.9 - and now 2.6.23.11 as well

On Donnerstag, 20. Dezember 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Hemmann, Volker Armin <volker.armin.hemmann@...clausthal.de> wrote:
> > On Donnerstag, 20. Dezember 2007, you wrote:
> > > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > > > [ 5194.131014] Pid: 22490, comm: sleep Tainted: P       
> > > > 2.6.23.11reiser4 #4
> > >
> > > The subject line is wrong.
> > > You apparently run Linux, but not Linux 2.6.23.y.
> >
> > first of all, apart from this oops all other oopses I reported were
> > with a not-tainted kernel. You might want to read the other mails I
> > have sent.
> >
> > Also, besides of the reiser4 patch there is no other patch added to
> > the kernel. And since people have had successfully reported problems
> > with heavily distro-patched kernels in the past it looks a little bit
> > hypocritical to put my reports aside because of one single patch -
> > don't you think?
>
> reiser4 isnt just a single random patch, it's a huge patch with lots of
> interactions with file and memory management. Would it be hard for you
> to reproduce the crash without reiser4? (or is all your stuff on
> reiser4?)

/home (and /var, /tmp) is on reiser4 and my biggest partition. And since it 
needs up to 3 days to reproduce this - yes, hard to do without r4.

Glück Auf,
 Volker
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