From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Boot failure with next-20120208 Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:22:44 -0700 Message-ID: <20120323122244.132198e3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20120212113805.c7e5d902c95a9d0f4037e12c@canb.auug.org.au> <16788.1329102254@neuling.org> <4F391BBA.5020506@linux.intel.com> <20120213120549.eab7e2b9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4F396FA9.90606@linux.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:40513 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758259Ab2CWTWs (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:22:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4F396FA9.90606@linux.intel.com> Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Michael Neuling , Stephen Rothwell , LKML , gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-next@vger.kernel.org, ppc-dev , Milton Miller On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:16:41 -0800 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > The bug looks pretty generic, nothing very PPC-specific there. It > > might affect other architectures - we won't know until we find out > > wht caused it. > > well one half of the race looks pretty generic... > ..... doesn't mean the other half of the race is though.... > > > > > > Ho hum, I suppose I should pull the patch out of linux-next, to > > avoid disrupting other testing. This means it's going to be hard > > to get the bug fixed. > > it means losing this one big PPC machine indeed.... until they hit > that same race some other way with regular real cpu hotplug ;-( So we're kinda stuck with this. As I can't merge it, I guess I'll make smp-start-up-non-boot-cpus-asynchronously.patch disappear.