Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 Oct 2007 09:18:22 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: git-block patches broken on 2.6.23-mm1 ia64 SN |
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On Sat, Oct 13 2007, Paul Jackson wrote: > [Try again, with a Subject this time ...] > > The git-block patches in 2.6.23-mm1 freeze my ia64 SN Altix hard on boot. > Not good (tm). > > Something broke between the git-block patch of Sept 26 in 2.6.23-rc8-mm2 > and the git-block patches of Oct 10-11 in 2.6.23-mm1 on my ia64 SN Altix > system using sn2_defconfig. > > Bisecting 2.6.23-mm1 narrows the problem down to the git-block patches: > > git-block.patch > git-block-fixup-1.patch > git-block-fixup.patch > git-block-fixup-fix.patch > git-block-borkages.patch > git-block-s390-fix.patch > > I can boot 2.6.23-rc8-mm2 fine, but I freeze early in boot > on 2.6.23-mm1, after the following prints on the console: > > McKinley Errata 9 workaround not needed; disabling it > SLUB: Genslabs=26, HWalign=128, Order=0-2, MinObjects=8, CPUs=8, Nodes=1024 > Dentry cache hash table entries: 1048576 (order: 9, 8388608 bytes) > Inode-cache hash table entries: 524288 (order: 8, 4194304 bytes) > Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 > ACPI: Core revision 20070126 > Boot processor id 0x0/0x0 > Brought up 8 CPUs > Total of 8 processors activated (15564.80 BogoMIPS). > > The next output that I -would- have expected, based on successful boots > without these patches, but never get, is: > > net_namespace: 120 bytes > DMI not present or invalid. > xor: measuring software checksum speed > ia64 : 2692.000 MB/sec > xor: using function: ia64 (2692.000 MB/sec) > NET: Registered protocol family 16 > ACPI DSDT OEM Rev 0x20101
Can you try with init call debugging, perhaps that'll show where it stalls? Sounds a bit odd that the block changes would cause a failure so early in the boot, it hasn't done anything yet. But it could be some error in the init functions.
-- Jens Axboe
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