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On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:01:20 +1100, Dave Oxley wrote: |
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> I upgraded from gentoo-sources-2.6.27-r4 to -r5 a couple of days ago and |
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> got the below error messages in /var/log/messages. Also dovecot was using |
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> 100% CPU and could not be killed. This resulted in me having to hard reset |
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> the server. This happened 3 times until I eventually reverted back to -r4 |
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> and all was stable again. The config used for both kernels was the same |
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> and it happened after irregular intervals of between 5 hours and 9 hours. |
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> Anyone have any ideas? Things are back to normal now but I will obviously |
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> be wary about my next kernel upgrade. |
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More info and pointers to fix here: |
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http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0812.1/02305.html |
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or |
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http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0812.1/02590.html |
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Just apply the patch to lib/idr.c and things should be fine again (or wait |
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for stable.10). GregKH is doing an amazing job and it's not his fault, but |
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nevertheless the rate of changes to -stable has just totally spiralled out |
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of control. |
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-h |
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