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Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 06:59:11 +0530 From: Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> To: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...il.com> CC: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, rsa@...ibm.com, apw@...dowen.org, balbir@...ibm.com Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 kobject changes broken with hvcs driver on powerpc Badari Pulavarty wrote: > On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 00:28 +0530, Balbir Singh wrote: >> Greg KH wrote: >> >>>> Why release the spinlock here? It's done after the count is incremented. >>>> This patch does not seem correct. >>> Doh, you are correct, I'll make sure that I fix this up before applying >>> it. >>> >>> thanks, >>> >>> greg k-h >> Hi, Greg, >> >> I ran some tests with the fixed up version of this patch and the system >> fails to come up. >> >> I see the WARN_ON in lib/kref.c:33 and the system fails to boot beyond >> that point. I have not yet found time to debug it though. > > > Are you running into same issue, I am getting on my machine ? Are you > using IPR driver ? > Badari, I am unable to get past lib/kref.c:33 and cut here. The machine just stalls, I see no output at the console. I don't get a backtrace like you do, even with xmon enabled :( > Thanks, > Badari > > -- Warm Regards, Balbir Singh Linux Technology Center IBM, ISTL -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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