From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sachin Sant Subject: Re: Next March 25: Boot failure on powerpc [recursive locking detected] Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:04:40 +0530 Message-ID: <49CB2200.50703@in.ibm.com> References: <20090325191229.0e17eaf6.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <49CA3BF4.3050801@in.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from e28smtp03.in.ibm.com ([59.145.155.3]:35680 "EHLO e28smtp03.in.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750925AbZCZGer (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:34:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <49CA3BF4.3050801@in.ibm.com> Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Cc: Stephen Rothwell , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , James Bottomley Sachin Sant wrote: > Today's next failed to boot on a powerpc box > (Power6 blade IBM,7998-61X) with following recursive locking message. > > ============================================= > [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] > 2.6.29-next-20090325 #1 After bisecting the failure seems to be because of the following patch from James ( block: move SCSI timeout check into block ) http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8017/ If i back out the above mentioned patch, the machine boots fine without any problems. Thanks -Sachin -- --------------------------------- Sachin Sant IBM Linux Technology Center India Systems and Technology Labs Bangalore, India ---------------------------------