From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B3D82DDE00 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:58:39 +1100 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:58:37 +0100 From: "Gerhard Pircher" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20071116085837.6650@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: Subject: Re: hangs after "Freeing unused kernel memory" To: "Siva Prasad" Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:00:09 -0800 > Von: "Siva Prasad" > An: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org > Betreff: hangs after "Freeing unused kernel memory" > Hi, > > This sounds like a familiar problem, but could not get answers in posts > that came up in google search. Yes, this is a familiar problem, at least for me. :-) > My system hangs after printing the message "Freeing unused kernel > memory". It should execute init after that, but not sure what exactly is > happening. Appreciate if some one can throw few ideas to try out. > > Seems it is actually hanging when it makes the call " > run_init_process(ramdisk_execute_command)" in init/main.c On my machine it hangs after returning from kernel_execve()/do_execve(), which is called by run_init_process("/sbin/init"). So the problem can be almost anywhere. The problem appeared first on kernel 2.6.17. 2.6.16 worked fine on my machine. I'm going to try out git-bisect on these two kernel revisions, now that I figured out what people mean when they talk about bisecting. :-) I just have to figure out how to merge my patches with every branch that is checked out by git-bisect. Gerhard -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal für Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer