Re: 2.6.7-ck1

Con Kolivas
2004-06-19T16:59:47Z

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Grzegorz Kulewski wrote:
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| On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Con Kolivas wrote:
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|>Con Kolivas wrote:
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|>>On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 04:35, Grzegorz Kulewski wrote:
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|>>
|>>>Hi Con,
|>>>
|>>>I have two problems with 2.6.7-ck1. My distribution is Gentoo Linux
|>>>unstable with all latest updates. Oh, yes, both 2.6.7-ck1 and 2.6.7-rc3
|>>>I tested have vesafb-tng applied from http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/, but
|>>>it should not cause any problems because it is very non-intrusive
patch I
|>>>think. Maybe you should include this in your patchset?
|>>>
|>>>1. When booting init script freezes after starting input hotplugging (it
|>>>is udev system). The only way to make it run is to press Ctrl-Alt-SysRQ
|>>>and various keys to display kernel state several times. After that
system
|>>>starts normally. I do not know if it is only -ck problem because I had
|>>>no time to test 2.6.7 vanilla, but 2.6.7-rc3 worked fine. (Log
included.)
|>>
|>>
|>>Yes I have a sneaking suspicion it's related to the fact kernel
threads are
|>>fixed priority at the moment in staircase (they dont descend priority
like
|>>normal tasks so act like relatively low priority real time tasks). I'm
|>>addressing that for the next version so hopefully that will fix it.
|>
|>Here's a diff for -ck1 which brings you up to staircase7.1
|>Can you try that?
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|
| It does not solve the problem for me, sorry...

Ok I'll keep looking. That change was necessary anyway.

Thanks,
Con
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