No luck here. I checked the patched kernel running Brian's test after an hour and it had frozen up, with one de_put message.
Eli ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Kuschak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Gabriel Paubert'" <paubert at iram.es> Cc: "'Dan Malek'" <dan at mvista.com>; "Eli Chen" <eli at routefree.com>; <linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 5:44 PM Subject: RE: dcache BUG() > Hi Gabriel, > > I tried your patch, but as you expected it didn't fix the problem. I ran it > twice, once with my kernel as I got it from MontaVista, and once with the > atomic_set() function using regular stw (as it is in the offical sources, I > believe). > > In both cases I got the de_put messages in a few minutes, and once I got the > dentry BUG(). > > I think Eli might have had better luck, but I'm not sure how long he was > running the test. > > Regards, > Brian > > > > > Patch follows, it includes my previous patch. I don't think that it will > > solve your problem, unless you happen to use a preemptible kernel. > > While I was at it, I removed the useless stwcx. in transfer_to_handler. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
