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SubjectRe: 2.6.15-mm4 failure on power5
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" <serue@us.ibm.com> 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
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