From: Michel Dänzer <daenzer@relog.ch>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <bh40@calva.net>
Cc: costabel@wanadoo.fr, Paul Mackerras <paulus@linuxcare.com>,
Linux -Dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: success 2.4.0-test8 with latest bk
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 14:58:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <39BF79DC.D4861C59@relog.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20000913124700.2558@mailhost.mipsys.com
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> >> > You are lucky. For me it stops booting after the "freeing unused kernel
> >> > memory" line. The one from 2 days ago had 2 days uptime.
> >>
> >> Usually this means that some function/data is marked __init while it
> >must not.
> >> Quick verification: #undef __init / #define __init etc.
> >>
> >> Just wondering: wouldn't it be possible to write some tool to find such
> >bugs?
> >
> >Update: After a recompilation with today's updates, the latest bk kernel
> >boots again for me.
>
> That's not the first time I notice this strange behaviour. I meant, this
> happened to me randomly with various bk kernels for monthes. The problem
> usually disappeared by itself after either recompiling the entire kernel,
> or changing a few unrelated lines of code and then reompiling. That's
> weird, I really don't know what can be causing that.
Broken dependencies?
Michel
--
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast
Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and the DRI project
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-09-13 12:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-09-12 20:49 success 2.4.0-test8 with latest bk Andreas Tobler
2000-09-12 21:11 ` Martin Costabel
2000-09-12 22:14 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-09-13 12:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2000-09-13 12:46 ` Martin Costabel
2000-09-13 12:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2000-09-13 12:58 ` Michel Dänzer [this message]
2000-09-13 20:25 ` Michel Lanners
2000-09-13 21:20 ` Martin Costabel
2000-09-14 1:13 ` Takashi Oe
2000-09-14 3:38 ` Paul Mackerras
2000-09-14 6:50 ` Takashi Oe
2000-09-17 5:32 ` Troy Benjegerdes
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2000-09-13 15:56 Iain Sandoe
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