From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Subject: Re: Regression: ppc powerstation boot hang caused by slab initialisation code
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:10:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1245719440.17035.41.camel@mulgrave.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1245717131.4017.19.camel@pasglop>
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 10:32 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 18:21 -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 08:51 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > Ah, I notice you use SLAB, that's the second report of hangs with it due to
> > > the changes. You can try SLUB while I'm looking, might help.
> >
> > Yes, switching to slub fixes it ... although given that the identified
> > problem commit is a slab one, that's understandable ...
>
> Patch on its way (separate thread).
Got it .. just compiling now; changing the allocator seems to require a
rebuild of about every file.
> BTW. Any reason why you don't have
> IRQSTACKs ? We really need to make that not an option....
That would probably be because I got it from the original debian OS, I
think. I tend to use OS provided .configs as the basis for my changes.
James
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-23 1:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-22 22:10 James Bottomley
2009-06-22 22:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-22 22:40 ` James Bottomley
2009-06-22 22:51 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-22 23:21 ` James Bottomley
2009-06-22 23:51 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-23 0:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-23 1:10 ` James Bottomley [this message]
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