From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263303AbTDNNpR (for ); Mon, 14 Apr 2003 09:45:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263305AbTDNNpR (for ); Mon, 14 Apr 2003 09:45:17 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:28328 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263303AbTDNNpO (for ); Mon, 14 Apr 2003 09:45:14 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Nicholas Wourms Subject: Re: Early boot oops with 2.5.67-bk(current) on a dual Athlon-MP [Asus A7M266-D] machine Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 09:50:33 -0400 Message-ID: <3E9ABCA9.8000802@myrealbox.com> References: <3E99B9B4.8000304@myrealbox.com> <20030413165259.36fb0f97.akpm@digeo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org Cc: Dave Jones User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > Nicholas Wourms wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>Attached is the oops (which results in a panic) when I >>attempt to boot the lastest bk current on my machine. > > > The MCE code is using the workqueue infrastructure waaaaaaay earlier than it > is allowed to. It looks like the timer went off before the workqueue > initialisation had been run. > > This should fix it. > Andrew, Thanks for the patch. No oops this time around, but now it freezes at the exact same point in the boot process. My keyboard (usb) stops responding entirely, thus eliminating any use of the Magic SysRq key. Same config as before, with your patch applied. Cheers, Nicholas