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From: Kevin Winchester <kjwinchester@gmail.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: X fails to start with latest Linus git
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:19:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <479BCE03.6070603@gmail.com> (raw)


Hi Ingo,

Starting X (autostarted with GDM) manages to lock up my system
(requiring a hard reset) after the first few tree merges of the window,
and bisection shows:

-----------------

19ef9309273d26cb005cb23e6a370353dca91099 is first bad commit
commit 19ef9309273d26cb005cb23e6a370353dca91099
Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date:   Fri Jan 25 21:08:34 2008 +0100

    printk: use ktime_get()

    printk timestamps: use ktime_get().

    Some platforms have a functioning clocksource function only after
    they are done with early bootup, so delay this until out of
    SYSTEM_BOOTING state.

    it's also inherently safe now, as any bugs in this area will be
    caught by the printk recursion checks.

    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

-----------------

as the first bad commit.  I have no idea why that would cause problems,
so it could also be some timing-related problem that just happened to
bisect to this patch.

I will try advancing to the head of Linus' tree and then reverting this
patch to make sure it fixes the problem, but I figured I'd send this
first to see if it is obvious to anyone.

-- 
Kevin Winchester


             reply	other threads:[~2008-01-27  0:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-27  0:19 Kevin Winchester [this message]
2008-01-27  0:35 ` X fails to start with latest Linus git Kevin Winchester
2008-01-27  6:27   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-27 10:42     ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-27 12:31     ` Kevin Winchester
2008-01-27 12:35       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-27 23:08         ` Kevin Winchester
2008-01-27 12:37       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-27 12:41         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-27 12:42           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-27 23:12             ` Kevin Winchester
2008-01-27 23:35             ` Kevin Winchester
2008-01-27 23:10         ` Kevin Winchester
2008-01-27  7:12 ` [git pull] printk fix (was: Re: X fails to start with latest Linus git) Ingo Molnar

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