Re: + proc-dont-lock-task_structs-indefinitely-cpuset-fix-2.patchadded to -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

Paul Jackson <pj@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I am seeing as a separate bug the crash during boot that I reported
> > last, when I turned on some DEBUG options. 
> 
> I have narrowed it down to between the following two patches
> in *-mm (patch numbers 20 and 90 in 2.6.16-rc5-mm1, roughly):

I hope that machine doesn't take too long to boot.

>     multiple-exports-of-strpbrk.patch == ok
>     git-drm.patch == bad

That would point at either the sysfs changes in gregkh-driver-* or acpi. 
There have been no changes in the acpi patch in a couple of weeks.  Did
that machine run rc4-mm2?

> ip is at sysfs_create_group+0x30/0x2a0

It does have a sysfsy feel.  But I don't immediately see how any of the
patches in the driver tree can affect this.
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