> I shoule be easily fixed using the patch below. It records which bits > we should actually be concerned about, and only tests those specific > bits in the dispatch status register. > > Could you please give this patch a test? Tested - the patch seems to fix the problem as the machine is still alive and working well after several hours of running the buggy aptitude -u in a loop. I'll leave the kernel running and make sure the machine gets some more users and load during the next days. Thanks for the fix, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <bernd@xxxxxxx> <http://bzed.de/> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html