From: "Udo A. Steinberg" <us15@os.inf.tu-dresden.de>
To: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [2.6.23-rc8-mm2] System hangs (loops?) during boot
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 02:44:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071001024417.3478c2be@laptop.hypervisor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200710010207.34430.elendil@planet.nl>
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On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 02:07:33 +0200 Frans Pop (FP) wrote:
FP> On Monday 01 October 2007, you wrote:
FP> > I was suggesting to download 2.6.23-rc8 and applying the -hrt patchset
FP> > at
FP> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tglx/hrtimers/2.6.23-rc8/
FP> > on top of it.
FP>
FP> Ah, OK. I'm afraid that was not at all clear from your previous
FP> message :-/
Yeah, sorry about that.
FP> During 'make oldconfig' I got a config question about "CPU idle
FP> support", which does not seem to be in rc8-mm2; is that correct? I
FP> answered N.
Shouldn't matter either way. Answering 'Y' gives you a more sophisticated
C-state governor that improves battery life.
FP> The system does boot with rc8 + hrt1.
Good. That seems to confirm my suspicion that the real problem is caused by
something in -mm which is not in -hrt. However, I have no idea what exactly
could be going wrong.
FP> Andrew: any suggestions on how to trace the "real" culprit for the hang?
FP>
FP>
FP> Udo: I did see one issue during boot with this rc8 + hrt1 kernel.
FP> System is Debian unstable.
FP> Setting the system clock..
FP> select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out
Thomas and Andrew are the best people to ask about what exactly has been
merged from -hrt into -mm. Maybe they can chime in here.
Cheers,
- Udo
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-01 0:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-28 20:25 [2.6.23-rc8-mm2] System hangs (loops?) during boot Frans Pop
2007-09-29 0:32 ` Frans Pop
2007-09-29 8:37 ` Andrew Morton
[not found] ` <200709292140.23593.elendil@planet.nl>
2007-09-29 20:02 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-30 13:44 ` Udo A. Steinberg
2007-09-30 21:50 ` Frans Pop
2007-09-30 22:00 ` Udo A. Steinberg
2007-10-01 0:07 ` Frans Pop
2007-10-01 0:44 ` Udo A. Steinberg [this message]
2007-10-01 1:12 ` Frans Pop
2007-10-01 2:24 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-29 22:15 ` [2.6.23-rc8-mm2] kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:591! | invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP Frans Pop
2007-09-30 10:45 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-30 22:30 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-09-30 22:59 ` [2.6.23-rc8-mm2] Fails to resume from s2mem (was:kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:591! ...) Frans Pop
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