Re: 2.6.8-rc1: Possible SCSI-related problem on dual Opteron w/ NUMA

[R. J. Wysocki]

Andi,

On Saturday 17 of July 2004 21:09, R. J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Saturday 17 of July 2004 20:12, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 06:26:03PM +0200, R. J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > I got this on a dual Opteron system on 2.6.8-rc1 with the latest x86-64
> > > patchset from Andi:
> >
> > Does it happen with x86_64-2.6.8-1 too ?
>
> It did not happen when I was running that kernel, but I had only run it for
> a couple of times.  It generally does not happen with this one either. 
> It's happened only once and I reported it immediately.  But ...
>
[snip]

I had this problem again this morning.  I was unpacking the kernel tarball to 
/dev/sda8 and it went south (the tarball had been partially unpacked before 
the partition was remounted r-o).  Then, I got back to 2.6.7 and ran fsck - 
now it found some errors (obviously) and fixed them.  Next (on 2.6.7), I 
unpacked the kernel to /dev/sda8 (again) and compiled the 2.6.8-rc2.  I ran 
it, unpacked the kernel to /dev/sda8 (again) and compiled it - everything 
worked.  Then, I applied your patch on top of the newly created 2.6.8-rc2 
tree and compiled the kernel.  After installing and running it I tried to 
unpack the kernel to /dev/sda8 (again) and it went south, so I got back to 
the "plain" 2.6.8-rc2, ran fsck and fixed the partition, unpacked the kernel 
to /dev/sda8 - and it all worked.

So, it seems, there's something in your patch that causes this misbehavior.

rjw

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