Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:19:57 +0000 (GMT) | From | Mel Gorman <> | Subject | Re: Boot failure with ext2 and initrds |
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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 - 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/
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