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    SubjectRe: Boot failure with ext2 and initrds
    On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:

    > On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 19:11:22 +0000 (GMT)
    > Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote:
    >
    >> On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Mel Gorman wrote:
    >>> 2.6.19-rc5-mm2
    >>>
    >>> Am seeing errors with systems using ext2. First machine is a plan old x86
    >>> using initramfs. Console output looks like;
    >>> ...
    >>> Configuring network interfaces...BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#3!
    >>> ...
    >>> [<c01b3b80>] ext2_try_to_allocate+0xdb/0x152
    >>> [<c01b3e72>] ext2_try_to_allocate_with_rsv+0x4b/0x1b2
    >>>
    >>> I've not investigated yet what patches might be at fault.
    >>
    >> I expect you'll find it's
    >> ext2-reservations-bring-ext2-reservations-code-in-line-with-latest-ext3.patch
    >> which gets stuck in a loop there for me too: back it out and all seems fine.
    >>
    >> It's not obvious which part of the patch is to blame: mostly it's
    >> cleanup, but a few variables do change size: I'm currently narrowing
    >> down to where a fix is needed.
    >>
    >
    > Doing s/-Wall/-W/ tends to shake out bugs in this stuff.
    >
    > The below might help.
    >

    It worked for me on the two problem machines. Thanks
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