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" <redacted>
To: "'Gabriel Paubert'" <redacted>
Cc: "'Dan Malek'" <redacted>; "Eli Chen" <redacted>;
[off-list ref]
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

quoted

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.

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