At 8:08 PM -0500 12/5/04, Tim Kelly wrote:
>I'm actually rather puzzled by this problem. I can definately make it go
>away, but I'd like to be able to back out the code changes and make it fail
>again, but as I just posted, I'm only partially successful at that. I can't
>compile a new GENERIC because I've already mangled so much other code, so I
>have to compare it against 2.0RC4 GENERIC (non MP). I'll readily admit that
>while I feel comfortable saying this patch is promising, I can't say I've
>purely identified the problem.

OK, I've got an SP kernel that returns the mc problem. Since I can make it
go away with the MP kernel, the solution is somewhere in the difference.
The patch I posted is a good step, though, and I think will end up being
part of the final solution.

tim