Re: 2.6.21-rc6-mm1

Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-11T19:25:02Z

On Wednesday, 11 April 2007 00:20, Venki Pallipadi wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 07:40:52PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Monday, 9 April 2007 18:14, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
> > >
> > > >-----Original Message-----
> > > >From: Rafael J. Wysocki [mailto:rjw@sisk.pl]
> > > >Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 9:08 AM
> > > >To: Andrew Morton
> > > >Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; randy.dunlap@oracle.com;
> > > >lenb@kernel.org; Pallipadi, Venkatesh
> > > >Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc6-mm1
> > > >
> > > >On Sunday, 8 April 2007 23:35, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2
> > > >.6.21-rc6/2.6.21-rc6-mm1/
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> - Lots of x86 updates
> > > >>
> > > >> - This is a 25MB diff against mainline, which is rather large.
> > > >
> > > >The cpuidle thing tends to hang my x86-64 machines on boot.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Hi Rafael,
> > >
> > > At what point during boot does it hang?
> >
> > When mounting the root filesystem. It hangs completely, even the magic SysRq
> > doesn't work
> >
>
> Rafael: Below patch should fix the hang.

Yes, the box boots now, thanks.

Greetings,
Rafael