From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161150AbWG2BZK (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:25:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161157AbWG2BZK (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:25:10 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:22181 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161150AbWG2BZJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:25:09 -0400 Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:24:50 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Paul Fulghum Cc: ak@muc.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, ebiederm@xmission.com Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 timer int 0 doesn't work Message-Id: <20060728182450.8f5cbf76.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1154135792.2557.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20060727015639.9c89db57.akpm@osdl.org> <1154112276.3530.3.camel@amdx2.microgate.com> <20060728144854.44c4f557.akpm@osdl.org> <20060728233851.GA35643@muc.de> <1154132126.3349.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1154135792.2557.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i686-pc-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 On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:16:32 -0500 Paul Fulghum wrote: > On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 19:15 -0500, Paul Fulghum wrote: > > I'm doing a build on my home machine now to see if it > > happens there also. > > Well, the timer int 0 problem does not happen on my home machine. > However, it still crashes in early boot for a different reason. > > 2.6.18-rc2 works fine with same config. > > In this case the error is: > > No per-cpu room for modules yeah, sorry, that's a known problem which nobody appears to be doing anything about. The expansion of NR_IRQS gobbles all the percpu memory in the kstat structure. I assume you have a large NR_CPUS? Decreasing it should help.