Subject: Re: Linux-2.2.0-pre5 SMP broken on PReP?

From: Ryan Nielsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 18:43:09 -0800

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 1999, Ryan Nielsen <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> >it is crashing in kswapd, not the ncr driver.
> >
> >I got pre6 to work by reverse-patching the kswapd part of mm/vmscan.c down to
> >pre4
> >this is only needed for SMP...
> 
> Linus posted some messages about this on the kernel ML, pre-7 should fix
> all that mess, the memory trashing may finally work fine after all ;-)

He didn't mention SMP/PPC/kswapd, as far as i saw, only try_to_free_pages() etc.
I tried pre-7.gz and it made no difference, reverse-patching kswapd still makes things work.

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