[OpenAFS-devel] OpenAFS 1.4.2rc1 Oops During setpag on Linux 2.6.17

[Jason McCormick]

chas williams - CONTRACTOR wrote:
> ugh.  how confusing, i see fc and think fedora core, not final candidate.

Yeah...

> anyway, the keyring/pag code doesnt use a syscall in the kernel to join
> create a new session keyring.  instead, we just make our own session
> keyring and install it.  this should make x86_64 work assuming that
> the problem with x86_64 was that you cant make a syscall while within
> a syscall.

Actually, this is working a lot better at first run.  I built 1.4.2fc3
on Fedora 4 x86_64 (2.6.17).  No panics or oops-es.  I can seem to gain
and lose PAGs as expected.

I'll do some more testing on this, but this is terrific.  I can't wait
to stop rebuilding kernels.

- Jason