Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932448AbWAQMWd (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 07:22:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932449AbWAQMWd (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 07:22:33 -0500 Received: from e34.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.152]:38580 "EHLO e34.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932448AbWAQMWc (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 07:22:32 -0500 Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 06:22:30 -0600 From: "Serge E. Hallyn" To: Michael Ellerman , Andrew Morton , linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@au1.ibm.com, anton@au1.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: 2.6.15-mm4 failure on power5 Message-ID: <20060117122230.GB20632@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> References: <20060116063530.GB23399@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> <20060115230557.0f07a55c.akpm@osdl.org> <200601170000.58134.michael@ellerman.id.au> <20060116153748.GA25866@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> <20060116215252.GA10538@cs.umn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060116215252.GA10538@cs.umn.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1207 Lines: 34 Quoting Dave C Boutcher (sleddog@us.ibm.com): > On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 09:37:48AM -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > > Quoting Michael Ellerman (michael@ellerman.id.au): > > > On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 18:05, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > "Serge E. Hallyn" wrote: > > > > > On my power5 partition, 2.6.15-mm4 hangs on boot > > > > boot: quicktest > > Please wait, loading kernel... > > ... > > > Page orders: linear mapping = 24, others = 12 > > -> smp_release_cpus() > > <- smp_release_cpus() > > <- setup_system() > > > > So setup_system() at least finishes, though I don't see the > > printk's at the bottom of that function. > > 2.6.15-mm4 won't boot on my power5 either. I tracked it down to the > following mutex patch from Ingo: kernel-kernel-cpuc-to-mutexes.patch > > If I revert just that patch, mm4 boots fine. Its really not obvious to > me at all why that patch is breaking things though... FWIW this fixes mine as well. -serge - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/