From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760876AbYDDPCq (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Apr 2008 11:02:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758032AbYDDPCe (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Apr 2008 11:02:34 -0400 Received: from mtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.47]:30705 "EHLO mtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755150AbYDDPCd convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Apr 2008 11:02:33 -0400 Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 16:02:21 +0100 From: Ken Moffat To: Dhaval Giani Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Srivatsa Vaddagiri , Ingo Molnar , lkml Subject: Re: Regression in gdm-2.18 since 2.6.24 Message-ID: <20080404150221.GB21753@deepthought> References: <20080403191916.GA30864@deepthought> <200804032329.22483.rjw@sisk.pl> <20080403234839.GA5181@deepthought> <200804040220.00732.rjw@sisk.pl> <20080404123717.GA19045@deepthought> <20080404144825.GB890@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080404144825.GB890@linux.vnet.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 08:18:25PM +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 01:37:17PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 02:20:00AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > On Friday, 4 of April 2008, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 11:29:21PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Please unset CONFIG_GROUP_SCHED and retest. It is known to cause problems > > > > > (see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9969, for example). > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > Rafael > > > > Thanks for the suggestion. Tried it on 2.6.24.4, and > > > > double-checked /proc/config.gz after booting - > > > > > > > > # CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED is not set > > > > > > > > Unfortunately, the first test reboot failed in the same way. > > > > > > Please unset CONFIG_GROUP_SCHED too. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Rafael > > > > Yet again, I'm confused. I thought you'd missed a word in what you > > asked because the config for 2.6.24.4 doesn't show this. > > ken@bluesbreaker ~ $zgrep GROUP /proc/config.gz > > # CONFIG_CGROUPS is not set > > # CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED is not set > > ken@bluesbreaker ~ $ > > > > I _can_ see it in the 2.6.25 configs (except for rc1). Will retry > > rc8 with them both turned off. > > > > Right, in 2.6.24 we called it CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED since group > scheduling was available only for CFS. In 2.6.25 we have group > scheduling for RT as well, so it is called CONFIG_GROUP_SCHED now. > > -- > regards, > Dhaval OK, thanks for the explanation. Just gave -rc8 the first test with CONFIG_GROUP_SCHED unset, and again it fails. Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce