linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.21-rc3: /proc broken

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Date:	Fri, 9 Mar 2007 08:53:56 +0000
From:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Con Kolivas <kernel@...ivas.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc3: /proc broken

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 08:56:44AM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
> I did make oldconfig from http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/ck/config.txt and 
> chose all the defaults. Then building your fat config with -rc3, 'ps' hangs 
> on qemu for almost 30 seconds and then at last produces a broken output

Let me guess - you have either a serial console or something like that
and you're running these commands over said serial console?

Or you have console directed to both a serial port and the VT and you're
capturing this off the VT using gpm.

Either way, "serial8250: too much work for irq4" is a printk which will
be displayed by the kernel when it's unable to clear down work for the
serial port within 256 loops or so of the interrupt handler; it's a
protection against the box locking up.

It not actually contained in any of the files.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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