Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757221AbZFHQXp (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jun 2009 12:23:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756245AbZFHQXh (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jun 2009 12:23:37 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:38565 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755351AbZFHQXg (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jun 2009 12:23:36 -0400 Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 09:21:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: Chris Clayton cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput , NeilBrown , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, James Bottomley , scsi , Tejun Heo , Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: 2.6.30-rc8 Oops whilst booting In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <200906061959.55592.chris2553@googlemail.com> <200906062215.30571.chris2553@googlemail.com> <1244381140.30664.12.camel@ht.satnam> <1244413881.18742.31.camel@ht.satnam> <2f9e3044bafcae848f74a1492b0ea471.squirrel@neil.brown.name> <1244460875.12644.2.camel@ht.satnam> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LFD 1184 2008-12-16) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1501 Lines: 43 On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Chris Clayton wrote: > > OK. I reversed that change and built and installed the kernel. It has > withstood 100 reboots without a panic. Additionally, I pulled the > latest changes (that will be rc8-git5, I think) from kernel.org, > reversed the change to that kernel and built and installed it. That > too withstood 100 reboots without a panic. > > Let me know if there's anything else I can do to help fix this. That's already pretty convincing. James, Arjan? The original oops message is here (a jpg screen capture, unable to open initial console): http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/6/142 and it's this bug entry: Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13474 Subject : Oops whilst booting Submitter : Chris Clayton Date : 2009-06-06 18:59 (2 days old) References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124431487924254&w=4 and now bisected down to >> commit d5a877e8dd409d8c702986d06485c374b705d340 >> Author: James Bottomley >> Date: ? Sun May 24 13:03:43 2009 -0700 >> >> ? ? async: make sure independent async domains can't accidentally entangle please advice. Otherwise I'll have to revert. Linus -- 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/