2.6.6-rc3 crashes, here.

Posted Apr 30, 2004 14:21 UTC (Fri) by corbet (editor, #1)
In reply to: 2.6.6-rc3 crashes, here. by Duncan
Parent article: Kernel release status

FWIW, I believe I'm begin bitten by the same bug; it was introduced in -rc1. I'm trying to track it down in my spare time...

2.6.6-rc3 crashes, here.

Posted Apr 30, 2004 17:09 UTC (Fri) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link] (1 responses)

I don't think it's the same bug, then, as I'm running rc2 without issue.

Unless it was in rc1 (which I didn't have time to try), somehow got masked
at least for my combination of hardware and kernel config for rc2, and
then reappeared in rc3..

I suppose that's possible, if it's something under current rapid
development. However, I wouldn't think it all that likely..

Maybe I'll have to go pull rc1, compile it, and see, if 2.6.6 doesn't fix
it or is delayed until after the weekend. Right now, I have the sleep I
SHOULD have been doing when I was working on the computer, to catch up on.
<g>

Duncan

2.6.6-rc3 crashes, here -- FIXED

Posted May 1, 2004 16:52 UTC (Sat) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link]

Seems that mine has been fixed with the 2.6.6-rc3-bk3, which I'm now
running. I expected it was, when I saw this in the log:

<quote>

ChangeSet@1.1638, 2004-04-30 14:51:54-07:00, akpm@osdl.org
[PATCH] task_struct alignment fix

The recent slab alignment changes broke [many archs] (parisc and x86_64
for sure) by causing task_structs to be insufficiently aligned. [C]hange
[it back] to L1_CACHE_BYTES, [as] we used to have, via
SLAB_HW_CACHE_ALIGN.

</quote>

I figured that must be what I saw on x86_64, but I can boot the new kernel
again, now, and as a bonus I now know what the nightly bk snapshots are
(as mentioned in /something/ I was reading, recently, either on the Gentoo
lists or on LWN) and where to find and how to apply them. =:^)

Duncan