Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

[Edward Shishkin]

Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:23:54 -0600 Zan Lynx <zlynx@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  
>
> > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 20:56 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > Temporarily at
> > >
> > >  http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/
> > >
> > > Will appear later at
> > >
> > >  ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc4/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/
> > >      
> > First impressions:
> > Several of the same bugs as rc3-mm*:
> >      * Freezes immediately if I touch the wlan0 device after loading
> >        the new Broadcom wireless driver.
> >    
>
> cc linux-wireless
>
>  
>
> >      * Freezes immediately if I allow Bluetooth to configure.
> >    
>
> cc bluez-devel
>
>  
>
> >      * All freezes simply stop, no BUG or panic happens, no watchdog,
> >        soft or NMI ever triggers.  Thinking about it, I wonder if
> >        disabling EDAC_K8 would help here?  Does it steal NMI?  I'll try
> >        that later.
> >    
>
> Mabe that will be fixed by the just-uploaded
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc4/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/hot-fixes/tty-in-tiocsctty-when-we-steal-a-tty-hang-it-up-fix.patch
>
>  
>
> >      * I am using Reiser4 and after one of the above freezes and hard
> >        power cycle, files that were in use *read*only* are filled with
> >        zeros.

did you enable compression announced not so long ago?
anyway, it would be better to check your fs by fsck.reiser4

> >  For example, while testing and experiencing the above
> >        freezes, I lost /etc/ld.so.preload
> >        and /lib/security/pam_limits.so.  What the heck?
> >    
>
> cc reiserfs-dev
>  

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