Re: 2.6.4 on Alpha uninterruptible sleep of processes

From: Ivan Kokshaysky
Date: Sun Mar 14 2004 - 09:09:21 EST


On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 11:10:21AM +0100, Marc Giger wrote:
> Hmm, I couldn't boot the kernel with enabled "semaphore debugging". It
> hangs directly after aboot. No messages, nothing. Do I something wrong?

No. Indeed, "semaphore debugging" is completely useless since printk()
itself is trying to acquire the console_sem, which in turn causes
another debugging printk() and so on.
I think this option should be removed...

> Now I've booted 2.6.4 without debugging.

And does the last patch makes things better?

Ivan.
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