Re: gcc2.96 + prerelease BUG at inode.c:372

[Linus Torvalds]

In article <[e-mail]>,
Diego Liziero  <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>->1: The sound module for my mad16 based card plays the bytes swapped
>     (the same module recompiled with egcs-2.91.66 works fine).

Could you try to figure this one out a bit more? This sounds like a real
compiler issue, whether it is because egcs just happens to get the right
result for bogus kernel source, of whether gcc-2.96 has problems..

>->2: after two day under heavy load I've got the following BUG:
>     (I don't know if it's related to the compiler, that's why I'm reporting
>     this.)

Unrelated. This one is a known bug that hits if you are a bit unlucky
with a race on deleting the pages from the inode page-lists. Fixed in
the current prerelease patches on ftp.kernel.org.

		Linus