On Wednesday 28 September 2005 17:54, Jeff Dike wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 02:14:32PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: > > Very, very nice.
> > Let's hope for the better, but next time the debug should be done > > *before* merging, ok? Even because, for instance, if (say) the patch was > > ready for 2.6.14 and merged into 2.6.15, I could have released a test > > tree against 2.6.14 (maybe I could do this now). > I thought I did. AIO had been in my tree forever with no apparent > problems. We're not currently getting a lot of testing on that. Apart the really current issue of the page not uptodate, users mostly ran that because of x86_64 support, which is now reliable in mainline. In fact, the SKAS0 compiler-dependant bug (the asm code was popping a fixed number of words, which was wrong with different compiler) only came out on the tree I released against 2.6.12... > I recently started running 24 hour/day stress tests on UML, and > that turned up some problems. People turning on spinlock debugging turned > up the sleeping while atomic problem. And me staring at the code as a > result of that turned up the possible deadlock. > > And ask Jens Axboe if it can give a look to them (this time it's less > > necessary, since there are less dirty tricks). > Yeah. This still needs some work. I need to deal with the bitmap array > properly. > Jeff -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's "Doh!". Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID "PaoloGiarrusso", ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ___________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger: chiamate gratuite in tutto il mondo http://it.messenger.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel
