Re: 2.5.41-mm2

From: Dave Hansen (haveblue@us.ibm.com)
Date: Thu Oct 10 2002 - 01:44:17 EST


Ingo Molnar wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>> Ingo's original per-cpu-pages patch was said to be mainly beneficial
>> for web-serving type things, but no specweb testing has been possible
>> for a week or two due to oopses in the timer code.
>
> i sent my latest timer patch to Dave Hansen but have not heard back since.
> I've attached the latest patch, this kernel also printks a bit more when
> it sees invalid timer usage.
>
> in any case, the oops Dave was seeing i believe was fixed by Linus (the
> PgUp fix), and it was in the keyboard code. If there's anything else still
> going on then the attached patch should either fix it or provide further
> clues.

Sorry, I haven't had a chance to test it yet. The Specweb setup likes
to eat ethernet cards and I haven't put in replacements yet. I'll try
and get some time in on it tomorrow.

-- 
Dave Hansen
haveblue@us.ibm.com

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