Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm4

Gene Heskett
2004-09-27T15:31:40Z

On Monday 27 September 2004 10:06, Matt Heler wrote:
>I can confirm the same problem here.

So I not alone, thats comforting (I think)

I just woke up, and I think the next test compile will be done without
the pre-emptable bkl turned on. That was the only diff in the config
I saw when my script ran a make oldconfig, and it defaulted to a Y so
I accepted it when it ran.

Half an hour later (mount had to e2fsck a couple BIG partitions)

Ok, that fixed it and I'm running on it now.

That was the checkbox to make the big-kernel-lock pre-emptable that I
unchecked in a "make xconfig".

So I guess that particular patch still needs help.

I also took this back to the lkml for others to be made aware. But I
wonder whats so odd about our two systems, so far, we are the only
ones to be effected, so lets compare notes:

AMD Athlon 2800xp, biostar N7-NCD-Pro motherboard with an nforce2
chipset, and using the forcedeth driver for eth0. A gigabyte of
DDR400 rated ram running in DDR333 dual channel mode, the 2800xp
Athlon can't handle the DDR400 fsb correctly. No acpi is enabled, and
apm only for shutdown control & rtc handling.

>On Sunday 26 September 2004 9:53 pm, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Sunday 26 September 2004 21:10, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> >ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6
>> >.9- rc2/2.6.9-rc2-mm4/
>> >
>> >- ppc64 builds are busted due to breakage in bk-pci.patch
>> >
>> >- sparc64 builds are busted too. Also due to pci problems.
>> >
>> >- Various updates to various things. In particular, a kswapd
>> > artifact which could cause too much swapout was fixed.
>> >
>> >- I shall be offline for most of this week.
>>
>> The bootup hangs, from dmesg after reboot to 2.6.9-rc2-mm3:
>>
>> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
>> -----
>> 2.6.9-rc2-mm4 hangs here, and never gets to the next line
>> -----
>> NET: Registered protocol family 16
>>
>> So I assume something in the next line hangs it. Sysrq-t has no
>> repsonse, must use the hardware reset button.
>>
>> Ideas?

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