Re: 2.6.9-rc3-mm2

Peter Zijlstra
2004-10-05T09:29:34Z

On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 19:13, Pasi Savolainen wrote:
> * Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.9-rc3/2.6.9-rc3-mm2/
> >
> >
> > - Hopefully those x86 compile errors are fixed up.
>
> Are they something like this?
>
> - -
> pvsavola@tienel:~/linu/k25/mm$ uname -a
> Linux tienel 2.6.9-rc3-mm1 #1 SMP Sun Oct 3 16:34:23 EEST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
> pvsavola@tienel:~/linu/k25/mm$ make -j1 bzImage modules
> CHK include/linux/version.h
> make[1]: `arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s' is up to date.
> CHK include/linux/compile.h
> GEN_INITRAMFS_LIST usr/initramfs_list
> Using shipped usr/initramfs_list
> GEN .version
> CHK include/linux/compile.h
> UPD include/linux/compile.h
> CC init/version.o
> LD init/built-in.o
> LD .tmp_vmlinux1
> KSYM .tmp_kallsyms1.S
> make: *** wait: No child processes. Stop.
> - -
>
> The 'no child processes' keeps on coming up at 'random' moments under
> rc3-mm1. First time ever that I've seen it otherwise.
>

Just a simple mee too!
on 2.6.9-rc3-mm2-VP-T0 and on some earlier Sx patches as well.
Unfortunatly I haven't had time to track back as to when this was
introduced.

Both a P4-HT and a dual athlon have this problem.

Regards,

Peter Zijlstra