linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] 2.6.18-rc4-mm3 x86_64-mm-spin-irqs-enabled causes problems

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Date:	Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:28:36 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	kmannth@...ibm.com
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, andrew <akpm@...l.org>,
	efalk@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.18-rc4-mm3 x86_64-mm-spin-irqs-enabled causes problems

On Wednesday 30 August 2006 01:59, keith mannthey wrote:
> Hello, 
>   I moved to mm2 to mm3 and had trouble booting again with my hardware.
> In -mm3 the kernel boots but about the time init starts the whole box
> just stops doing anything.  Sysrq works and I dumped the tasks but
> nothing look too far out of place.  
> 
> I did a bisection of -mm3 and found x86_64-mm-spin-irqs-enabled.patch to
> be the cause. 

Yes it also broke someone else's box. We know what is broken now,
but the patch is dropped alreayd anyways because it had other issues too.

-Andi

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