Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm4

From: Gene Heskett (gene.heskett_at_verizon.net)
Date: 09/27/04

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Date:	Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:31:27 -0400

    On Monday 27 September 2004 10:06, Matt Heler wrote:
    >I can confirm the same problem here.

    So I not alone, thats comforting (I think)

    I just woke up, and I think the next test compile will be done without
    the pre-emptable bkl turned on. That was the only diff in the config
    I saw when my script ran a make oldconfig, and it defaulted to a Y so
    I accepted it when it ran.

    Half an hour later (mount had to e2fsck a couple BIG partitions)

    Ok, that fixed it and I'm running on it now.

    That was the checkbox to make the big-kernel-lock pre-emptable that I
    unchecked in a "make xconfig".

    So I guess that particular patch still needs help.

    I also took this back to the lkml for others to be made aware. But I
    wonder whats so odd about our two systems, so far, we are the only
    ones to be effected, so lets compare notes:

    AMD Athlon 2800xp, biostar N7-NCD-Pro motherboard with an nforce2
    chipset, and using the forcedeth driver for eth0. A gigabyte of
    DDR400 rated ram running in DDR333 dual channel mode, the 2800xp
    Athlon can't handle the DDR400 fsb correctly. No acpi is enabled, and
    apm only for shutdown control & rtc handling.

    >On Sunday 26 September 2004 9:53 pm, Gene Heskett wrote:
    >> On Sunday 26 September 2004 21:10, Andrew Morton wrote:
    >> >ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6
    >> >.9- rc2/2.6.9-rc2-mm4/
    >> >
    >> >- ppc64 builds are busted due to breakage in bk-pci.patch
    >> >
    >> >- sparc64 builds are busted too. Also due to pci problems.
    >> >
    >> >- Various updates to various things. In particular, a kswapd
    >> > artifact which could cause too much swapout was fixed.
    >> >
    >> >- I shall be offline for most of this week.
    >>
    >> The bootup hangs, from dmesg after reboot to 2.6.9-rc2-mm3:
    >>
    >> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
    >> -----
    >> 2.6.9-rc2-mm4 hangs here, and never gets to the next line
    >> -----
    >> NET: Registered protocol family 16
    >>
    >> So I assume something in the next line hangs it. Sysrq-t has no
    >> repsonse, must use the hardware reset button.
    >>
    >> Ideas? 

    -- 
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