Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:36:20 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.5-rc1-mm2 |
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Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@sgi.com> wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 March 2004 8:14 pm, Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.5-rc1/2.6 > >.5-rc1-mm2/ > > > > - Dropped the early-x86-cpu-detection patches, as these appear to be the > > source of recent early-crash problems. > > > > - Several fixes against the new writeback code. > > > > - Several fixes against the new block unplugging code. > > I just tracked down a hang I've been seeing in the 2.6.5-rcX-mm trees to this > release. The symptom is that the machine hangs sometime during init script > startup, usually at around the time swap space is enabled (using pretty stock > Red Hat scripts). Before I look into it any further, are there any patches > that I should look at dropping to see if the hang goes away? > > The hang occurs all the way through 2.6.5-rc3-mm1, but Linus' 2.6.5-rc3 > release works fine.
I don't see anything especially hangy in 2.6.5-rc1-mm2 - maybe it's something which was sucked in via one of the "external trees". rc3-mm1 boots OK on my ia64 box.
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