linux-kernel - Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc3

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Date:	Tue, 1 Aug 2006 21:31:22 -0700
From:	"Jesse Brandeburg" <jesse.brandeburg@...il.com>
To:	"Alan Stern" <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org>,
	"Kernel development list" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	torvalds@...l.org, cpufreq@....linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc3

On 7/31/06, Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > core_initcall() would suit.  That's actually a bit late for this sort of
> > thing, but we can always add a new section later if it becomes a problem.
> > I'd suggest that we ensure that srcu_notifier_chain_register() performs a
> > reliable BUG() if it gets called too early.
>
> Here's a patch to test.  I can't try it out on my machine because
> 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 (even without the patch) crashes partway through a
> suspend-to-disk, in a way that's extremely hard to debug.  Some sort of
> spinlock-related bug occurs within ioapic_write_entry.

can't test because I also can't suspend or hibernate with rc2-mm1
(resume causes hard hang with the backlight and screen off)  The issue
i reported was against linus' 2.6.18-rc3 kernel.

patch didn't apply to 2.6.18-rc3.

Thanks,
  Jesse
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