BUG() in copy_fdtable() with 64K pages (2.6.19-rc1-mm1)

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:15:19 -0500
Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net> wrote:

> I keep hitting this on -rc1-mm1. The system comes up but I can't login
> since login hits it.
> 
> Bisect says that fdtable-implement-new-pagesize-based-fdtable-allocator.patch is at fault.
> 
> CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES=y is required for it to fail, with 4K pages it's fine.
> 
> (Hardware is a Quad G5, 1GB RAM, g5_defconfig + CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES, defaults 
> on all new options)
> 
> 
> 
> kernel BUG in copy_fdtable at fs/file.c:138!

OK, thanks.  I put the revert patch into
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.19-rc1/2.6.19-rc1-mm1/hot-fixes/