Re: 2.6.24-rc3-mm1 - Kernel Panic on IO-APIC

[Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:28:32 -0800
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:14:17 +0100
> Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 11/26/2007 11:17 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >> Maybe if you can emit a broken-out with the fresh pull to test?
> > > 
> > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ is current.  But it probably won't
> > > compile. 
> > 
> > Yes it did :). And it worked. Both in qemu and on my desktop...
> 
> boggle.  Let's slap 2.6.25 on it and take the rest of the year off.

No worries, the mmotm compiling issue seems to have been fixed:

  CC [M]  drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.o
drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c:39: error: field ‘rphy’ has incomplete type
drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c: In function ‘sas_discover_sata’:
drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c:773: error: implicit declaration of function ‘ata_sas_rphy_alloc’
drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c:775: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c:775: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c:781: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c:782: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c:784: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in declaration of ‘__mptr’
drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c:784: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c:791: error: implicit declaration of function ‘ata_sas_rphy_add’
drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c:807: error: implicit declaration of function ‘ata_sas_rphy_delete’
drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c:809: error: implicit declaration of function ‘ata_sas_rphy_free’
make[3]: *** [drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [drivers/scsi/libsas] Error 2
make[1]: *** [drivers/scsi] Error 2
make: *** [drivers] Error 2

So much for continuing the bisect with that tree, to find the
cause of the second bug :)

Guess I'll extract an x86 tree changeset first, to place into
the 2.6.23-rc3-mm1 broken out tree and work from there...

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