>> With this patch after 2 minutes since boot the `jiffies' should wraparound
>> and so we should start to catch not yet fixed bugs. I suggest people the
>> stress the kernel in the first two minutes of run of the kernel.
>
>I don't think the patched kernel is happy. I've been playing with some
It' s not. I catched very big problems in the do_fast_gettimeoffset() at
least. In such function the jiffies static initialization change cause
problems (just fixed also in other arch).
Seems that such function cause a div_by_zero fault if run when jiffies ==
0 if I understand well this:
(divl %2) == (dx:ax / %2)
Unfortunately I had not time to understand what do_fast_gettimeoffset()
does, I was going to work on it now.
>bits of it to see what happens. Your sd.c patch doesnt compile but thats
>obvious to fix. If I just lob the lot in however then the ttys stop working
Thanks sd fixed now.
>and the disk stuff acquires a big extra delay
?!? what does it mean "lob the lot in however"? ;-).
Andrea Arcangeli
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