From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
miche@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Linus <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>,
Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>,
ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: Regression: patch " hvc_console: display printk messages on console." causing infinite loop with 3.2-rc0 + Xen.
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 18:30:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111103013012.GB3449@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111102121309.4dbb0d2ac90d2879130820dd@canb.auug.org.au>
On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 12:13:09PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:48:06 +0200 Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 01:30:08AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > > Hey Miche.
> > >
> > > The git commit 361162459f62dc0826b82c9690a741a940f457f0:
> > >
> > > hvc_console: display printk messages on console.
> > >
> > > is causing an infinite loop when booting Linux under Xen, as so:
> >
> > Ick, not good, thanks for letting us know.
>
> Indeed. I am wondering why it was put in a tree and sent to Linus without
> any Acks or even being replied to by anyone. It appeared in the tty tree
> between Oct 14 and Oct 25 (while I was unfortunately on vacation). If
> anyone had tried to boot this on any PowerPC server, it would have been
> immediately obvious (as it was when I booted Linus' tree last night).
>
> And the original author expressed doubts as to his understanding of how
> it should all work anyway.
>
> Just a little more care, please.
>
> I would vote for reverting the original and having it resubmitted with
> corrections at some later date.
You are right, I will go do that, sorry for the problems.
greg k-h
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2011-11-02 1:13 ` Regression: patch " hvc_console: display printk messages on console." causing infinite loop with 3.2-rc0 + Xen Stephen Rothwell
2011-11-03 1:30 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-11-07 6:19 ` Stephen Rothwell
2011-11-07 20:24 ` Greg KH
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