linux-kernel - Re: [Bug #11342] Linux 2.6.27-rc3: kernel BUG at mm/vmalloc.c

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Message-ID: <48E0E73A.40803@sgi.com>
Date:	Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:33:30 -0700
From:	Mike Travis <travis@....com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Alan.Brunelle@...com,
	tglx@...utronix.de, rjw@...k.pl,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	arjan@...ux.intel.com, Jack Steiner <steiner@....com>
Subject: Re: [Bug #11342] Linux 2.6.27-rc3: kernel BUG at mm/vmalloc.c -	bisected

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Mike Travis <travis@....com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Rusty,
>>
>> I've gotten some good traction on the changes in the following patch.  
>> About 30% of the kernel is compiling right now and I'm picking up 
>> errors and warnings as I'm going along.  I think it's doing most of 
>> what we need.  Attempting to hide the cpumask struct definition caused 
>> all kinds of problems with the inline functions and statically 
>> declaring cpumask's.
>>
>> (The following patch is a combination of all the changes to cpumask.h 
>> with the header from the first patch.  I'll send you a complete copy 
>> in separate email.)
> 
> could you please send whatever .c changes you have already, so that we 
> can have a look at how the end result will look like? Doesnt have to 
> build, i'm just curious about how it looks like in practice, 
> semantically.
> 
> 	Ingo


I will, and the full "allyesconfig" does compile.  And it's basically a
benign change in that the functionality is still the same.  I'm currently
reordering it a bit to clean it up.

Thanks,
Mike
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