Re: 2.6.12-rc1-bk does not boot x86_64

[Michael Thonke <iogl64nx@gmail.com>]

Thanks Alexander this sort this out.
No system boots w/o problems :-)

Alexander Nyberg wrote:

>>I tried the recent 2.6.12-rc1-bk5 snapshot from kernel.org.
>>When I want to boot my x86_64 system only a green line appears on screen.
>>The config is the same as in 2.6.12-rc1-bk4 which works flawlessly on my
>>system.
>>
>>I only saw the message that CPU0 and CPU1 where initialized. And then
>>there was
>>Brinnging up CPUs and it stopped.
>>
>>Its an Intel Pentium4 640 with (EMT64,HT,EIST,CIE enabled).
>>The graphic card is an Nvidia 6600GT PCIe device.
>>    
>>
>
>I had the same nasty surprise this morning, this will probably help:
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>Well, this is a brown paper bag for someone.  The new protocol
>registration locking uses a rwlock to limit access to the protocol list.
>Unfortunately, the initialisation:
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>static rwlock_t proto_list_lock;
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>Only works to initialise the lock as unlocked on platforms whose unlock
>signal is all zeros.  On other platforms, they think it's already locked
>and hang forever.
>
>Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
>
>
>===== net/core/sock.c 1.67 vs edited =====
>--- 1.67/net/core/sock.c	2005-03-26 17:04:35 -06:00
>+++ edited/net/core/sock.c	2005-04-02 13:37:20 -06:00
>@@ -1352,7 +1352,7 @@
> 
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(sk_common_release);
> 
>-static rwlock_t proto_list_lock;
>+static DEFINE_RWLOCK(proto_list_lock);
> static LIST_HEAD(proto_list);
> 
> int proto_register(struct proto *prot, int alloc_slab)
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