Re: 2.6.10-rc3-mm1

[Andrew Morton]

William Lee Irwin III <wli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 02:03:19AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>  > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.10-rc3/2.6.10-rc3-mm1/
>  > - Lots of new patches, lots of little fixes all over the place.
>  > - Probably the major change is the readahead rework, which may have
>  >   significant performance impacts on some workloads.  Not necessarily good,
>  >   either...
>  > - See below for the list of 31 patches which I have pending for 2.6.10.  If
>  >   there are other patches here which should go in, please let me know.
> 
>  This appears to have trouble on em64t; not only does the following happen,
>  but some odd userspace programs (e.g. ssh) appear to be failing.
> 
>  Shutting down powersaved                                                       cut here ] --------- [please bite here ] ---------
>  KDdoneernel BUG at pageattr:156

I can't say I'm surprised, really, although it booted and did stuff OK on my
box.

There's a mangled-up mess of ioremap/pageattr patches from Andrea and Andi
in there.  I'll drop a few things.  We need to go through those changes a
little more carefully.

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