From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764060AbYCEV4Z (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 16:56:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763212AbYCEVzg (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 16:55:36 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:42307 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762835AbYCEVze (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 16:55:34 -0500 Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 13:54:25 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Badari Pulavarty Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc3-mm1 ppc64 boot hang Message-Id: <20080305135425.c8ebf8e4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1204752855.7939.42.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> References: <20080304011928.e8c82c0c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1204752855.7939.42.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:34:14 -0800 Badari Pulavarty wrote: > On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 01:19 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.25-rc3/2.6.25-rc3-mm1/ > > > > Hi Andrew, > > Not able to boot 2.6.25-rc3-mm1 my ppc64 box. > 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 and 2.6.25-rc3 boots fine. > > I applied slab.c fix also. > > Any other known issues ? My config file attached. > Here are the messages on the console. The semaphore consolidation code enables interrupts early in boot, when it shouldn't. This tends to make powerpc blow up. Could be that this is what you're hitting. Matthew, is this ging to be fixed soon? Thanks.