Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm4

Matt Heler
2004-09-27T16:43:04Z

Yup, turning opff pre-emptable bkl makes it boot up and work just fine.

On Monday 27 September 2004 8:31 am, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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?