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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 01:31:38 -0400
From: Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Jason Garrett-Glaser <jason@...4.com>,
Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Word-at-a-time dcache name accesses (was Re: .. anybody know of
any filesystems that depend on the exact VFS 'namehash' implementation?)
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:42:19AM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote:
>
> > > I did only very limited profiling of the 32-bit case, but it's really
> > > just four cheap ALU instructions there and didn't really show up at
> > > all in the limited profiles I did. And at least I checked that the
> > > code worked. I have to say that the advantage of "vectorizing" this
> > > code is obviously much less if you can only do 4-byte "vectors", so I
> > > didn't actually time whether the patch *improves* anything on x86-32.
> > >
> >
> > This patch is causing my system (x86-64, Fedora 16) to fail to boot
> > when DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=n. No oops, but these error messages were in the
> > log for the bad kernel:
>
> I saw this too, it was fixed by f132c5be05e407a99cf582347a2ae0120acd3ad7 for me.
> Does your kernel have that commit ?
>
> Dave
>
>
Yes, I see that commit. It looks like I have a different bug that is
preventing the current head from booting then. Bisecting brought me
to this commit instead.
--
Brian Gerst
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