linux-kernel - Re: [2.6.36-rc regression] occasional complete system hangs on sparc64 SMP

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Date:	Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:33:00 +0200
From:	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	mikpe@...uu.se, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.36-rc regression] occasional complete system hangs on
 sparc64 SMP

David Miller writes:
 > 
 > BTW, and this is a long shot, but in another thread someone
 > reported that the following patch causes sporadic problems
 > for them.
 > 
 > Can you try reverting it from the current tree and seeing if
 > that makes the hangs go away?
 > 
 > Thanks!
 > 
 > commit 6dda9d55bf545013597724bf0cd79d01bd2bd944
 > Author: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@...il.com>
 > Date:   Mon May 24 14:31:54 2010 -0700
 > 
 >     page allocator: reduce fragmentation in buddy allocator by adding buddies that are merging to the tail of the free lists

I'll test -rc7 with this one reverted tomorrow.
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