On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Kai Makisara wrote: > On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > > The st problem (Bad page state, > > > mapcount 2 while count 0, from sgl_unmap_user_pages) ought to be a lot > > > easier to debug than a random reboot: but I've still no suggestion. > > > > I guessed it last week, Ryan verified that booting with "iommu=nomerge" > > worked around it, and then that the 2.6.15 patch below fixes it. > > I have tested the patch and did not find any problems. I suppose you will Thanks. > send this to the stable team for inclusion into 2.6.15.x? You can add Yes, this one does fit the criteria for stable (even though the patch fortuitously turns out not to be necessary in 2.6.16): it fixes a serious observed user problem. Not sure what to do with the associated patches to other drivers though, since those problems have not been knowingly observed: probably best leave them to maintainer's discretion. > Signed-off-by: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@xxxxxxxxxxx> Thanks, Hugh - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
