Well, it ran for about 4 1/2 hours, much longer than before Gabriel's patch, but eventually failed the same way.
Brian sh-2.03# while /bin/true ; do cat /proc/net/* 2>/dev/null > /tmp/junk; done de_put: entry net already free! de_put: entry net already free! de_put: entry net already free! de_put: entry net already free! de_put: entry net already free! de_put: entry net already free! de_put: entry net already free! de_put: entry net already free! de_put: entry net already free! de_put: entry net already free! de_put: entry net already free! de_put: entry net already free! de_put: entry net already free! de_put: entry net already free! de_put: entry net already free! de_put: entry net already free! de_put: entry net already free! de_put: entry net already free! de_put: entry net already free! de_put: entry net already free! dentry.d_count = 0 dentry.d_reftime = 134236224 (current = 1634369) dentry.d_inode = c12badc0 dentry.d_name = net kernel BUG at /home/brian/linux/include/linux/dcache.h:251! -----Original Message----- From: Dan Malek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 6:44 PM To: Gabriel Paubert Cc: Eli Chen; Brian Kuschak; linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: dcache BUG() Gabriel Paubert wrote: > I'm myself more and more convinced myself that this is really a bug, I'm convinced, too, so thanks for the suggestion. I think it is much more likely to show up on the 4xx because of my (assumed) implementation than on other processors that attempt to make some use of the EA in the instructions. > .... It does not fix Eli's problems, so > either my patch is wrong or something else is going on. We have many people testing on a variety of systems, so we will know more shortly. Thanks again. -- Dan ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
