Re: 2.6.29-rc6: Reported regressions from 2.6.28

Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-02-25T23:13:22Z

On Tuesday 24 February 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> (note, the standalone mail of this bug entry did not make it out
> for some reason.)

Hm, strange. I certainly received it from one of the lists.

> * Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
>
> > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12760
> > Subject : 2.6.29-rc5 hanging at boot when CONFIG_LOCK_STAT=y
> > Submitter : Adam J. Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>
> > Date : 2009-02-16 6:50 (8 days old)
> > References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123476768023893&w=4
> > Handled-By : Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
>
> Here we came to the conclusion that this is some LILO bug with a
> too large BSS section - that's one thing that CONFIG_LOCK_STAT
> causes. Under Grub the same kernel image boots fine. So unless
> Adam has new data that contradicts this i think we can close
> this bug.

Thanks, closed.

Rafael