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

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