Re: 2.6.25-rc3-mm1 ppc64 boot hang

From: Badari Pulavarty
Date: Wed Mar 05 2008 - 17:32:42 EST


On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 13:54 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:34:14 -0800
> Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 01:19 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.25-rc3/2.6.25-rc3-mm1/
> > >
> >
> > Hi Andrew,
> >
> > Not able to boot 2.6.25-rc3-mm1 my ppc64 box.
> > 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 and 2.6.25-rc3 boots fine.
> >
> > I applied slab.c fix also.
> >
> > Any other known issues ? My config file attached.
> > Here are the messages on the console.
>
> The semaphore consolidation code enables interrupts early in boot, when it
> shouldn't. This tends to make powerpc blow up. Could be that this is what
> you're hitting.
>
> Matthew, is this ging to be fixed soon?

Yes. I just backed out git-semaphore.patch and machine booted fine.

Thanks,
Badari

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