linux-kernel - Re: Make sure we populate the initroot filesystem late enough

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Date:	Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:20:10 +1100
From:	Paul TBBle Hampson <Paul.Hampson@...ox.com>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: Make sure we populate the initroot filesystem late enough

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 08:03:49AM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

>> Hmm. The crash came back after I booted into Mac OS X and back. It was however
>> a different crash, I believe it was coming from the USB modules (as it would
>> keep going when it happened, and get another crash, which tended to scroll away
>> too fast for me to capture) but I believe it was still getting down into the
>> slab code and actually dying there.

> Have you tried, instead, to apply
> 38f3323037de22bb0089d08be27be01196e7148b ? (That is revert
> 39d61db0edb34d60b83c5e0d62d0e906578cc707).

That's working fine at the moment, and has even survived a trip to Mac
OS X and back.

Thankyou.

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