Re: [BUG] asm-ppc/pgtable.h breakage from 2.6.7-rc1-bk4

From: Mikael Pettersson
Date: Sun Jun 06 2004 - 06:18:19 EST


On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 20:50:41 -0500, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>> That (see below) also works and allows 2.6.7-rc2 to
>> boot on my PM4400.
>
>Ok, that's not normal though, as we are only relaxing permissions,
>so we must be missing something in the DSI handler or such. Can you
>try to look at what the CPU is doing when hitting that loop ? It must
>be taking the same exception over and over again...

According to Alt-SysRq, the current process is rc.sysinit,
its kernel-side is in __switch_to(), and the kernel is at
various points in page-fault/mm-fault handling.
So it's not hanging, but it's not making progress either.

/Mikael
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