Re: [patch 0/3] Per cpu relocation to ZERO and x86_32 percpu opson x86_64

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Nov 30 2007 - 15:07:26 EST



* Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > And btw., -rc3-mm2 seems to have grown a spontaneous reboot problem,
> > that looks quite similar to what i saw:
> >
> > http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc3/2.6.24-rc3-mm2/announce.txt
>
> Side swipe against mm? ;-) mm2 works fine here. What is so bad about
> mm?

you snipped out this bit where Andrew wrote:

> | - First bug report: after ten minutes happily compiling kernels my
> | 2.6.24-rc3-mm2 x86_64 box spontaneously rebooted.

which answers your question: i only pointed out that this is very
similar to what i saw, spontaneous reboots. So why did you call this a
"side swipe"? I connected up different bugreports. I do not claim that
Andrew's reboot was necessarily due to the percpu patches, i just
pointed out the similarity of the symptoms.

Ingo
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