Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:21:32 -0500 | From | Chuck Ebbert <> | Subject | Re: [patch 00/21] 2.6.19-stable review |
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Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes: > >> On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:31:41 -0500 >> Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> wrote: >>> What is the status of: >>> >>> >> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20/2.6.20-mm2/broken-out/x86_64-mm-simplfy-__assign_irq_vector.patch >> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20/2.6.20-mm2/broken-out/x86_64-mm-handle-irqs-pending-in-irr-during-irq-migration.patch >> >> That's mainly an Andi decision. Let's cc him. >> >>> They fix a serious bug that causes machines to freeze up >>> or just run very slowly. >>> >>> I'd like to see these in -stable if possible. >> They're not even in mainline yet. > > If you don't have it you at least want the patch below. It generally > makes the bug non-fatal. > > I'm still working my way through possible fixes... Although the > patch in question is close, and normally fixes it in my utmost > paranoia I can still find problems with it.
We've tested it and found no problems so far. It's definitely better than what's there now. :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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