From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] driver core merge for 3.3 Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 22:31:48 +0000 Message-ID: <20120106223148.GN20752@decadent.org.uk> References: <20120106201126.GA7239@kroah.com> <20120106220608.GA20623@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:33115 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752947Ab2AFWby (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2012 17:31:54 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120106220608.GA20623@suse.de> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Greg KH Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linux-Arch On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 02:06:08PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 10:38:41PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 21:11, Greg KH wrote: > > > Ben Hutchings (1): > > > =A0 =A0 =A0topology: Provide CPU topology in sysfs in !SMP config= urations > >=20 > > FWIW, as reported before, I can confirm that 3.2.0-next-20120106 cr= ashes > > on m68k during boot: [...] > > Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint > > Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! > >=20 > > Reverting the above commit (ccbc60d3e19a1b6ae66ca0d89b3da02dde62088= b) > > fixes it. > >=20 > > So to preserve bisectability, you may want to drop this ommit until= the > > UP-only archs have been fixed. >=20 > Ick, sorry for missing that report, you are right. >=20 > Ben, I thought this patch was for UP systems, how did this work on yo= ur > testing? It works just fine on UP x86. However I have been made aware that it breaks on m68k and I told you as much in <1325462025.13595.189.camel@deadeye>: > None of these architectures appears to call register_cpu(): >=20 > c6x frv h8300 m68k microblaze openrisc score um xtensa >=20 > and therefore they will all panic at boot following this change (comm= it > ccbc60d3e19a1b6ae66ca0d89b3da02dde62088b). So either I can try to fi= x > them or else it must be reverted for now. Ben. > Linus, can you revert this, or I can if you want me to. >=20 > thanks, >=20 > greg k-h >=20 --=20 Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert = Camus