Re: [2/2] 2.6.22-rc4: known regressions v3

From: William Lee Irwin III
Date: Thu Jun 14 2007 - 10:21:26 EST


On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 11:30:25AM +0100, Mark Fortescue wrote:
> They apear as soon as simpleinit starts up. Somtimes I get to a login
> prompt before seeing any. Other times, commands in the simpleinit rc
> script fail.
> They do apear to be random. If a command failes, you re-run the command
> and it is OK. Commands seen to fail are basic (depmod, rm cat ..).
> The test I did use the same binaries with both the OK and problem kernels
> so it is not a change to the application code, it is definatly a kernel
> issue.

This sounds like it may be addressed by benh's ptep_set_access_flags()
fixes. Those fixes are still in -mm, hopefully to hit mainline by 2.6.22.


-- wli
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