Thorsten Leemhuis wrote on 20.11.2012 18:43: > On 20.11.2012 16:38, Josh Boyer wrote: > > The short story from my current point of view is: Quick update, in case anybody is interested: > * my main machine at home where I initially saw the issue that started > this thread seems to be running fine with rc6 and the "safe" patch Mel > posted in https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/12/113 Before that I ran a rc5 > kernel with the revert that went into rc6 and the "safe" patch -- that > worked fine for a few days, too. On this machine I'm running a rc6 kernel + the fix for the accounting bug(¹) that went into mainline ~40 hours ago + the "riskier" patch Mel posted in https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/12/151 Up to now everything works fine. (¹) https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/21/362 > * I have a second machine where I started to use 3.7-rc kernels only > yesterday (the machine triggered a bug in the radeon driver that seems > to be fixed in rc6) which showed symptoms like the ones Zdenek Kabelac > mentions in this thread. I wasn't able to look closer at it, but simply > tried rc6 with the safe patch, which didn't help. I'm now running rc6 > with the "riskier" patch from https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/12/151 > I can't yet tell if it helps. If the problems shows up again I'll try to > capture more debugging data via sysrq -- there wasn't any time for that > when I was running rc6 with the safe patch, sorry. This machine is now also behaving fine with above mentioned rc6 kernel + the two patches. It seems the accounting bug was the root cause for the problems this machine showed. CU Thorsten -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>