Re: Boot hangs after "Freeing initrd memory" with 2.6.31.11

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Sun Jan 17 2010 - 08:42:55 EST


On Sunday 17 January 2010, Ozan ÃaÄlayan wrote:
> Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Saturday 16 January 2010, Ozan ÃaÄlayan wrote:
>
> >>>
> >>> I think that the commit should be reverted or a fix should be released for linux-2.6 tree,
> >>> as well as .31 and .32 stable trees.
> >>
> >> Linux 2.6.31 is released on Sep 9th. So people having an Athlon XP processor + a kernel newer than 4 months
> >> which enables CONFIG_X86_CPU_DEBUG can't even boot into a linux kernel. I was *at least* expecting a comment from the relevant
> >> people but nope for 2 days.
> >>
> >> It seems to be a serious regression which doesn't get caught. I'm also CC'ing Rafael, maybe he can inject this
> >> in one of his regression threads.
> >
> > Well, the problem is I'm not listing regressions from 2.6.31 any more.

I should have said "from 2.6.30" actually.

Rafael
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