Re: Fw: crash on x86_64 - mm related?

[Ryan Richter]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 10:48:22PM +0200, Kai Makisara wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Ryan Richter wrote:
> > This applies cleanly to 2.6.14.2, do you forsee any problems using it
> > with that kernel?  I'd like to not change too many things at once.
> > 
> No, I don't see any potential problems applying this patch to 2.6.14.2. 
> There is nothing specific to 2.6.15-rc2.
> 
> If someone sees that there is something wrong, please yell. The 
> main purpose of the patch is not to call release_buffering() at the end of 
> st_write() when starting asynchronous write and call it in 
> write_behind_check() instead.

OK, thanks.  I think I'll go ahead and advance to 2.6.14.3 since that
should theoretically not cause any problems.

One question: do you think the oopses that happened later that actually
crashed the box were from damage caused by this bug or is that a
different problem?

> > If it should be OK, I'll boot this tonight or tomorrow - the backups run
> > every other night, so it won't get any testing until tomorrow night.
> > 
> > Thanks a lot,
> > -ryan
> > 
> Thanks for reporting the problem and thanks in advance for testing.

Sure thing,
-ryan
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