From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932186AbWCAI1n (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2006 03:27:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932241AbWCAI1n (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2006 03:27:43 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:4292 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932186AbWCAI1m (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2006 03:27:42 -0500 Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 00:26:31 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Paul Jackson Cc: pj@sgi.com, ebiederm@xmission.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: + proc-dont-lock-task_structs-indefinitely-cpuset-fix-2.patch added to -mm tree Message-Id: <20060301002631.48e3800e.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060228234807.55f1b25f.pj@sgi.com> References: <200603010120.k211KqVP009559@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <20060228181849.faaf234e.pj@sgi.com> <20060228183610.5253feb9.akpm@osdl.org> <20060228194525.0faebaaa.pj@sgi.com> <20060228201040.34a1e8f5.pj@sgi.com> <20060228212501.25464659.pj@sgi.com> <20060228234807.55f1b25f.pj@sgi.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Paul Jackson wrote: > > > I am seeing as a separate bug the crash during boot that I reported > > last, when I turned on some DEBUG options. > > I have narrowed it down to between the following two patches > in *-mm (patch numbers 20 and 90 in 2.6.16-rc5-mm1, roughly): I hope that machine doesn't take too long to boot. > multiple-exports-of-strpbrk.patch == ok > git-drm.patch == bad That would point at either the sysfs changes in gregkh-driver-* or acpi. There have been no changes in the acpi patch in a couple of weeks. Did that machine run rc4-mm2? > ip is at sysfs_create_group+0x30/0x2a0 It does have a sysfsy feel. But I don't immediately see how any of the patches in the driver tree can affect this.