From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3DA65441.7020505@us.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 21:32:01 -0700 From: Dave Hansen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: 2.5.41-mm2 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andrew Morton , lkml , "linux-mm@kvack.org" List-ID: Ingo Molnar wrote: > On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Andrew Morton wrote: >> Ingo's original per-cpu-pages patch was said to be mainly beneficial >> for web-serving type things, but no specweb testing has been possible >> for a week or two due to oopses in the timer code. > > i sent my latest timer patch to Dave Hansen but have not heard back since. > I've attached the latest patch, this kernel also printks a bit more when > it sees invalid timer usage. > > in any case, the oops Dave was seeing i believe was fixed by Linus (the > PgUp fix), and it was in the keyboard code. If there's anything else still > going on then the attached patch should either fix it or provide further > clues. Ingo, I'm running the current Bitkeeper tree with your patch, with no oopses in sight. The oops happens in seconds without the patch, but I haven't seen anything in an hour of running Specweb. It looks pretty good. Please feed that patch to Linus if you haven't already. -- Dave Hansen haveblue@us.ibm.com -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/