> Now what's REALLY, REALLY wierd is that this fixes my hang problem
> whilst trying to run kernbench:
>
> http://mbligh.org/abat/no_hang
>
> which is just reverting:
>
> x86_64-use-a-common-function-to-find-code-segment-bases-fix.patch
>
> But the patch is tiny, and it makes NO sense at all for this to fix
> anything. All it does is:
Strangely, -git3 works, which has the boot fix applied, but not the
hang fix bit. Something odd is afoot.
> diff -purN -X /home/mbligh/.diff.exclude 2.6.12-rc2-mm2/include/asm-x86_64/ptrace.h 2.6.12-rc2-mm2-no_hang/include/asm-x86_64/ptrace.h
> --- 2.6.12-rc2-mm2/include/asm-x86_64/ptrace.h 2005-04-08 23:41:41.000000000 -0700
> +++ 2.6.12-rc2-mm2-no_hang/include/asm-x86_64/ptrace.h 2005-06-08 16:25:01.000000000 -0700
> @@ -86,8 +86,6 @@ struct pt_regs {
> extern unsigned long profile_pc(struct pt_regs *regs);
> void signal_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, void __user *frame, char *where);
>
> -struct task_struct;
> -
> extern unsigned long
> convert_rip_to_linear(struct task_struct *child, struct pt_regs *regs);
>
>
> How the hell can that possibly fix it? Boggle. But it does. I checked.
> I ran a whole damned sequence of patches from your tree against the box,
> then extracted the one where the failover started and retested it with
> just that and the no_hole one. There's even a little green box to
> prove it about 4 down on the left here:
>
> http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mbligh/abat/regression_matrix.html
>
> My brain is now a small piece of silly-putty smushed against the far
> wall of my study. Anything you can do to help me scrape up the remains
> would be splendid. I can only speculate it's some wierd side-effect,
> because I have no other explaination at all.
>
> Humpf.
>
> M.
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