From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756143Ab1LVXiu (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:38:50 -0500 Received: from mail-iy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.210.174]:57376 "EHLO mail-iy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753651Ab1LVXis (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:38:48 -0500 Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:38:43 -0800 From: Tejun Heo To: Andrew Morton Cc: Stephen Rothwell , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, LKML , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for Dec 21 Message-ID: <20111222233843.GR17084@google.com> References: <20111221174733.9ba0861e762e8d96844b060b@canb.auug.org.au> <20111221151503.4d78f94f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20111222150836.af172886.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20111222232036.GP17084@google.com> <20111222152427.c944c747.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20111222152427.c944c747.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 03:24:27PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Hmmm... probably cic allocation failure? > > Dunno, it's an 8Gb 8 CPU x86_64 box. > > > It's just that those cases happened infrequently > > enough that nobody really noticed (or at least tracked it down). How > > can you reproduce the problem? > > Easily. One time it got to a login prompt and hung quickly during a > make. Every other time (ten times, maybe) it hung during initscripts. Weird, I can't reproduce the problem on block/for-3.3/core. Trying linux-next... hmmm, it works there too. Can you please share .config? Thanks. -- tejun