From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750839AbWH3H3N (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Aug 2006 03:29:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751082AbWH3H3M (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Aug 2006 03:29:12 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:2976 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750839AbWH3H3L (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Aug 2006 03:29:11 -0400 From: Andi Kleen To: kmannth@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.18-rc4-mm3 x86_64-mm-spin-irqs-enabled causes problems Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:28:36 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: lkml , andrew , efalk@google.com References: <1156895977.5654.17.camel@keithlap> In-Reply-To: <1156895977.5654.17.camel@keithlap> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608300928.36175.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 30 August 2006 01:59, keith mannthey wrote: > Hello, > I moved to mm2 to mm3 and had trouble booting again with my hardware. > In -mm3 the kernel boots but about the time init starts the whole box > just stops doing anything. Sysrq works and I dumped the tasks but > nothing look too far out of place. > > I did a bisection of -mm3 and found x86_64-mm-spin-irqs-enabled.patch to > be the cause. Yes it also broke someone else's box. We know what is broken now, but the patch is dropped alreayd anyways because it had other issues too. -Andi