Re: 2.6.29-rc1 does not boot

Ingo Molnar
2009-01-12T12:22:07Z

* Dieter Ries <clip2@gmx.de> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar schrieb:
> > Dieter did not have lockdep enabled so we dont have a nice stack
> > trace proof for this, but using work_on_cpu() in such a lowlevel
> > place certainly looks wrong, so we revert the patch.
>
> I can send a stack trace in the evening, when I have access to my other
> machine for getting the netconsole output. Would that help?

sure, that would confirm the theory and would avoid this bug being
reintroduced later.

So you did get stacktraces? You might want to boot with
CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y, that could also catch and report the lockup
scenario.

Ingo