2.6.6-rc3 crashes, here -- FIXED

Posted May 1, 2004 16:52 UTC (Sat) by Duncan (guest, #6647)
In reply to: 2.6.6-rc3 crashes, here. by Duncan
Parent article: Kernel release status

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