Dipankar Sarma wrote:
> Well, my earlier find_first_bit() implementation was completely bogus.
> My sanity has now returned and I coded this patch below that fixes
> find_find_bit() to return "size" if all bits are zero. I have tested it
> extensively in userspace and it boots 2.5.44-mm5 which crashed with the
> earlier version of the bitops_fix patch. I have coded the assembly routine
> as optimal as I could think of and without introducing any new
> branches or memory loads.
>
> Along with this patch, I applied the larger_cpu_mask patch to -mm5
> and sanity tested both UP and SMP kernels for dcache leaks in a 4CPU P3
> box. An ls -lR and subsequent unmounting of that filesystems showed that
> the dentries were correctly getting returned the dcache slab and
> that indicates that the larger_cpu_mask patch no longer breaks RCU.
> I will do some more testing with this combination later with
> rcu_stats applied on this tree (just to be sure), but so far it looks
> good.
-mm5 with this patch is working fine here.
Thanks
Ed Tomlinson
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