linux-kernel - Re: [PowerPC] 2.6.30-git14 boot failure with SLAB

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Date:	Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:36:03 +0530
From:	Sachin Sant <sachinp@...ibm.com>
To:	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org
CC:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PowerPC] 2.6.30-git14 boot failure with SLAB

Sachin Sant wrote:
> 2.6.30-git14 (0732f87761dbe417cb6e084b712d07e879e876ef) fails to boot
> on various PowerPC machines. Here are last few boot messages from a 
> Power6
> box.
<SNIP>

>
> I will go back and check what changes between git10 and git11
> could have caused this boot failure.
>
The offending commit seems to be c868d550115b9ccc0027c67265b9520790f05601.
mm: Move pgtable_cache_init() earlier

If i revert this commit, the machine boots fine.

Thanks
-Sachin

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Sachin Sant
IBM Linux Technology Center
India Systems and Technology Labs
Bangalore, India
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