Re: Linux v2.6.16-rc5

 On Sun, Mar 05, Olaf Hering wrote:

 On Sun, Feb 26, Linus Torvalds wrote:

quoted

Have I missed anything? Holler. And please keep reminding about any 
regressions since 2.6.15.

I see random memory corruption on an early G3 ibook.
Testcase is an openSuSE 10.1 installation. 2.6.15 works ok modulo 2 bugs
to get it booted at all, and the usual udev breakage.

plain 2.6.16-rc5-git7 locks up after a few packages, no ping.
Our SuSE kernel does not lockup, but ext2 shows access beyond end of
device after > 200 packages, or the rpmdb gets corrupt, or both. With reiserfs
it gets past 100 packages, then reiserfs complains about fs corruption.
plain -rc2 shows the same reiserfs corruption.
plain -rc1 dies after a few packages, it jumps to 0x0 in softirq.

-git5 works, -git7 showed reiserfs corruption. -git6 died, jumped from
__do_softirq to 0x0, will try once again.

git5->6 has the mutex changes, but also lots of powerpc changes. Lets
see if I can narrow it down further.

The ibook has 160mb, installation is done via modular nfs
(ro,v3,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,hard,nolock,proto=tcp,addr=1.1.1.3)
I havent seen this on a B&W G3 with 256mb, nor on other ppc32 systems.