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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: 2.6.29-rc6: Reported regressions from 2.6.28
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:15:50 +0100
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(note, the standalone mail of this bug entry did not make it out 
for some reason.)

* 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.

	Ingo