Steve,
I was under the impression that the patches I applied were already
back-ported to linux-2.4.20. In fact, I get no errors when applying the
three xfs patches (as listed below).
I guess this can have nothing to do with the fact that I am running the
kernel on a dual process system?
Marc
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Lord" <lord@xxxxxxx>
To: "Marc Beuchat" <marc@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 3:43 PM
Subject: Re: linux 2.4.20 + xfs 1.3 crashes at boot
> On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 08:29, Marc Beuchat wrote:
> > I have compiled a stock kernel 2.4.20 patched with
> > linux-2.4.20-core-xfs-1.3.0.patch, linux-xfs-1.3.0.patch and
> > linux-2.4.20-xfs-1.3.0fixup.patch. Booting on a dual pentium III system,
the
> > kernel oops just after initializing the first CPU:
>
>
> This looks rather like you missed something in backporting the
> patch, the alloc_inode code is different between the kernel the
> patch was intended for, and the one you used it one. You have to
> look at what the patch does to the kernel, and what the base kernel
> looks like, then make your kernel do the same thing. Some of the
> changes needed by xfs have been incorporated into the base code
> since 2.4.20 and hence are not present in the patch anymore.
>
> Steve
>
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