Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Nov 2010 14:22:29 -0400 | From | Nick Bowler <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -BUGFIX] Re: BUG in ext4 with 2.6.37-rc1 |
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On 2010-11-03 14:14 -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote: > On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 04:20:13PM -0400, Nick Bowler wrote: > > The following BUG occurred today while compiling gcc, with 2.6.37-rc1+. > > More precisely, commit 7fe19da4ca38 ("preempt: fix kernel build with > > !CONFIG_BKL") with http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.nfs/36521 > > applied on top. It basically took out the whole system. > > Hi Nick, > > How easily can you reproduce this bug? I'm pretty sure I know what > caused it, but it's always good to get confirmation that a patch > addresses the reported bug. If it happens to you fairly often, can > you try out this patch and let me know whether it fixes the bug for > you?
I only encountered it the one time, but I haven't tried compiling gcc since it blew up the first time (there seems to be no problem compiling linux, for instance). I will try it again now with and without the patch.
-- Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)
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