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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>,
	"bugme-daemon@kernel-bugs.osdl.org" 
	<bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alex@hausnet.ru
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 7495] New: Kernel periodically hangs.
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 10:19:42 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061111101942.5f3f2537.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1163268603.3293.45.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>

On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 19:10:03 +0100
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:

> > > Kernel started with noapic option, cause it hands on load without this option.
> > 
> > Him and a million other people.  I know we broke APIC.  Around 2.6.9, I
> > think.
> 
> 
> is that when the "enable apic even on UP so that distro kernels can
> install on the ibm x44*" patches went in?
> 

I don't know.  In fact I forget how I worked out that it worsened in
2.6.early.

google(noapic) gets 232,000 hits.

I don't think it really matters when or why it happened.  If we take the
approach of fixing one machine at a time, we'll only need to fix a few
individual machines to improve the situation for a lot of people.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-11 18:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200611111129.kABBTWgp014081@fire-2.osdl.org>
2006-11-11 18:00 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-11 18:10   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-11 18:19     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-11-12 11:50       ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-12 12:53         ` Adrian Bunk
2006-11-12 13:16           ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-12 13:37             ` Adrian Bunk
2006-11-12 13:57               ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-12 14:10                 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-11-12 14:16                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-12 15:21                     ` Adrian Bunk
2006-11-12 15:50                       ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-12 15:59                       ` Patrick McFarland
2006-11-12 16:07                         ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-12 16:47                         ` Adrian Bunk
2006-11-12 21:45                     ` Dave Jones
2006-11-13  2:07                       ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-12 19:18             ` Ingo Oeser
2006-11-12 19:34               ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-12 20:32               ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-13  6:42   ` Neil Brown
2006-11-13 11:22   ` David Howells

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