linux-kernel - Re: Strange hang on ia64 with CONFIG_PRINTK

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Date:	Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:35:58 -0800
From:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
To:	"Tony Luck" <tony.luck@...il.com>
Cc:	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, mingo@...e.hu,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Strange hang on ia64 with CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME=y

 > I just tried Ingo's patch[1] on a 2.6.25-rc2 kernel with printk timestamps
 > turned on ... and it booted just fine on my tiger4.  The default path
 > for non-boot cpus is from head.S to start_secondary(), and that
 > calls cpu_init() pretty quickly.  There shouldn't normally[2] be any
 > printk() calls on the non-boot cpu before it is safe to do so.

Hmm, current git + Ingo's patch still hangs on boot on my system
("Hitachi Cold Fusion-3e 2S4U" according to DMI).

 - R.
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