Linux kernel bug AMD64 - affects skiplists

[Bron Gondwana]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:04:49 +0200, "<::Teresa_II::>" <teresa at kvitka.net> said:
> &#1059; &#1089;&#1088;, 2008-06-18 &#1091; 14:00 +1000, Bron Gondwana &#1087;&#1080;&#1096;&#1077;:
> > I promised I'd have something to say about skiplists soon!
> 
> My cyrus runs on amd64 too, so does
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=42a886af728c089df8da1b0017b0e7e6c81b5335
> 
> fix the problem ?

Yes, it does.  I haven't rolled it out to any production machines yet (just reverted
back to the 2.6.20 series kernel that we were using before) - but I built a test
kernel with it and confirmed the fix.

Bron.
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