Re: 2.6.7-ck1

[Grzegorz Kulewski <kangur@polcom.net>]

On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Con Kolivas wrote:

> Con Kolivas wrote:
> > On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 04:35, Grzegorz Kulewski wrote:
> > 
> >>Hi Con,
> >>
> >>I have two problems with 2.6.7-ck1. My distribution is Gentoo Linux
> >>unstable with all latest updates. Oh, yes, both 2.6.7-ck1 and 2.6.7-rc3
> >>I tested have vesafb-tng applied from http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/, but
> >>it should not cause any problems because it is very non-intrusive patch I
> >>think. Maybe you should include this in your patchset?
> >>
> >>1. When booting init script freezes after starting input hotplugging (it
> >>is udev system). The only way to make it run is to press Ctrl-Alt-SysRQ
> >>and various keys to display kernel state several times. After that system
> >>starts normally. I do not know if it is only -ck problem because I had
> >>no time to test 2.6.7 vanilla, but 2.6.7-rc3 worked fine. (Log included.)
> > 
> > 
> > Yes I have a sneaking suspicion it's related to the fact kernel threads are 
> > fixed priority at the moment in staircase (they dont descend priority like 
> > normal tasks so act like relatively low priority real time tasks). I'm 
> > addressing that for the next version so hopefully that will fix it.
> 
> Here's a diff for -ck1 which brings you up to staircase7.1
> Can you try that?

It does not solve the problem for me, sorry...


Thanks,

Grzegorz Kulewski