Re: oops in bk pull (oct 03)

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Fri, 4 Oct 2002 20:51:10 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>
> On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Alexander Viro wrote:
> >
> > It is repeatable, it does happen with current BK (well, as of couple
> > of hours ago) and reverting pci/probe.c change apparently cures it.
>
> Really? That probe.c diff is _really_ small, and looks truly obvious. In
> particular, I don't see how it could possibly cause that kind of
> behaviour. What am I missing?

Hell knows. The only explanation I see (and that's not worth much) is that
we somehow confuse the chipset and get crapped on something like next cache
miss.

I'm out of ideas on that one - if you have any suggestions / questions on
details of behaviour I'll be glad to try and see what I can do, but for
now I'm reverting the probe.c patch in my tree so that I could return to
initramfs work. Originally I thought it was a bug in my own code, but oops
is present in 2.5.40-BK and disappears in 2.5.40-BK minus probe.c changeset...

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