linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] workqueue for v2.6.36

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Date:	Mon, 9 Aug 2010 22:09:45 +0200
From:	Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...eaurora.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@...e.de>,
	Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>,
	Steve French <sfrench@...ba.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Andy Walls <awalls@...ix.net>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] workqueue for v2.6.36

On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 01:05:31PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Please consider pulling from
> >
> >  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq.git for-linus
> 
> Hmm. So I pulled, because I think it is the right thing in the long
> run. But right now I'm bisecting a non-booting machine, and it seems
> to be due to the workqueue pull.
> 
> It's not fully bisected yet, but the only remaining thing I actually
> enable is workqueues. The symptom is a machine that stops at
> 
>   ...
>   dracut: Starting plymouth daemon
>   dracut: Scanning devices sda2  for LVM volume groups
>   dracut: Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
>   dracut: Found volume group "VolGroup" using metadata type lvm2
> 
> and the next thing I'd expect to see is the mounting of the filesystem
> and the SElinux notifications. And I never do.
> 
> I'll bisect it all the way, but thought I'd let you know.

No need to, it's already fixed:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/9/94
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