linux-kernel - Re: regression in 2.6.29-git3 on SH/Dreamcast

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Date:	Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:35:58 +0100
From:	Adrian McMenamin <adrian@...golddream.dyndns.info>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	linux-sh <linux-sh@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: regression in 2.6.29-git3 on SH/Dreamcast

On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 20:04 +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> While 2.6.29 boots cleanly on the Dreamcast, later revisions are likely
> to crash with an OOM condition (this is a race, it doesn't happen on
> every boot, but on about one in every three or four).
> 

Still don't know why this timer patch is tipping the machine over, but I
have found that if I set CONFIG_NO_HZ=y then the machine will boot with
the patch applied.




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