linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.19-rc2-mm2: reproducible hang on shutdown on i386

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Message-Id: <200610231643.32148.rjw@sisk.pl>
Date:	Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:43:31 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc2-mm2: reproducible hang on shutdown on i386

On Saturday, 21 October 2006 19:30, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Friday, 20 October 2006 10:56, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.19-rc2/2.6.19-rc2-mm2/
> > 
> > - Added the IOAT tree as git-ioat.patch (Chris Leech)
> > 
> > - I worked out the git magic to make the wireless tree work
> >   (git-wireless.patch).  Hopefully it will be in -mm more often now.
> 
> [Margin note: bcm43xx doesn't work on my test boxes although it used to on one
> of them, but I have to play with it a bit more.]
> 
> It looks like i386 cannot shut down cleanly with this kernel.  On my test
> boxes (2 of them) it hangs after killing all processes, 100% of the time.

I've carried out a binary search which shows that

add-process_session-helper-routine-deprecate-old-field-fix-warnings.patch

causes this to happen.

Greetings,
Rafael


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