Re: linux 2.2.18pre17 + VM-global -7 = `Negative d_count' oops

2000-10-27 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 12:14:56PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > gcc version 2.95.2 2220 (Debian GNU/Linux) Please give a try to 2.95.2 19991024 (release) or egcs 1.1.2 or gcc 2.7.2.3. I don't see anything strange in your .config. Andrea - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscr

Re: linux 2.2.18pre17 + VM-global -7 = `Negative d_count' oops

2000-10-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Andrea Arcangeli writes ("Re: linux 2.2.18pre17 + VM-global -7 = `Negative d_count' oops"): > On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 06:37:37PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Negative d_count (-805538369) for [binary garbage]/ > > > > followed by an oops. Kernel logfile e

Re: linux 2.2.18pre17 + VM-global -7 = `Negative d_count' oops

2000-10-26 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 06:37:37PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Negative d_count (-805538369) for [binary garbage]/ > > followed by an oops. Kernel logfile extract below, uuencoded. Thanks for the feedback. The oops is forced by the kernel after it sees then wrong negative d_count. I'd say it

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre17

2000-10-20 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > - Get to the bottom of the VM mystery if possible The RAID problem (which is caused by VM changes) is the same deadlock found in drbd and nbd. It was not a problem with kernels < 2.2.17 because there was no write throttling in shrink_mmap. I'm attach

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre17

2000-10-19 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > This is just to give folks something to sync against. Test it by all means > however. > > Must fix stuff left to do for 2.2.18final > - Merge the S/390 stuff and make S/390 build again > - Fix the megaraid (revert if need be) > - Fix the ps/2 m