Re: 2.6.35.2 regression, does not boot, sleeping function called from invalid context

Greg KH
2010-08-18T13:35:38Z

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 04:53:05PM +0200, Richard Zidlicky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> updated 2.6.35 -> 2.6.35.2 and it breaks very early during initialisation, does
> not boot.
>
> The first oops I get is a ~BUG sleeping function called from invalid context, mm/rmap.c:119~
> Comes right after
> protecting the kernel read only data: 1868K
>
> Backtrace seems to be
> anon_vma_prepare
> do_raw_spinlock
> expand_downwards
>
> I can email pictures of stack back trace off list if anyone is interested.
> 2.6.35 works without problems except that hibernation is completely broken,
> attached dmesgs for 2.6.35

Does .35.1 work?

.35.2 has some issues that are being worked on, the patches to solve the
bug is already in Linus's tree, give me a few days to get a new release
out with this solved.

thanks,

greg k-h