Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761318Ab1EASUr (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 May 2011 14:20:47 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:56402 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755465Ab1EASUq convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 May 2011 14:20:46 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: Linus Torvalds Date: Sun, 1 May 2011 11:20:21 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: 2.6.39-rc5-git2 boot crashs To: werner , Steven Rostedt Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jaxboe@fusionio.com, tj@kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1514 Lines: 35 2011/5/1 werner : > > But, now, the 2nd compilation, I made with the slackware huge configuration. > And this works !! It boots normally, and it also don't crash ?if unzipping > big files. ?So you were right, to use a more little config, for find out > better the reason. Ok, good. Now we have confirmation that it's not the SATA driver itself that causes problems, it's some other driver. So what I'd suggest you try to do is a "config bisect" to see exactly _what_ config option it is that makes things break. Steve Rostedt wrote a tool ("ktest") for this exact thing, but I'm not entirely sure that it will work for your situation. I've added Steve to the email participants, and I'd suggest you read up on it: http://lwn.net/Articles/414064/ would seem to be a good starting point. Of course, you could just try to do it manually too - just turn one subsystem at a time from a module in the working slackware config into a compiled-in thing, so that eventually you end up with the non-working "almost everything compiled in" case. And see which subsystem it is that causes problems. And then when you find the subsystem that makes the problem re-appear, you'd need to go back and try each driver at a time. 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/