Re: 2.4.0-test9-pre8

[David Weinehall]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 01:34:03AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > Last pre-kernel - I'll do the real test9 before I fly off to
> > Germany on Tuesday.
> 
> >  - pre8:
> >     - quintela: fix the synchronous wait on kmem_cache_shrink().
> >       This should fix the mmap02 lockup.
> 
> It probably doesn't. People will want to apply my patch
> (on http://www.surriel.com/patches/) to -test9-pre8 to
> see if that really makes the box solid.
> 
> Testing volunteers: it looks like you have one whole day
> to really stress-test the crap out of my patch so Linus
> can have a bit of certainty the patch he'll (maybe) apply
> really works ;)

Well, I did my best, and without too much trouble I managed to sink the
kernel into a grinding halt. No oops, and it still responded to SysRQ,
but nothing else.

This was with v2.4.0-test9-pre8+your patches.

Oh, and I guess this is for you to fix:

page_alloc.c: In function `__alloc_pages':
page_alloc.c:473: warning: suggest parentheses around comparison in operand of &
page_alloc.c:536: warning: int format, long int arg (arg 2)

(I HATE buildtime warnings.)

/David
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