linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1: "consolechars" hangs on boot

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Message-Id: <20080313153851.2023980c.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:38:51 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@...e.fr>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, oleg@...sign.ru, roland@...hat.com,
	mingo@...e.hu, xemul@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc5-mm1: "consolechars" hangs on boot

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:07:30 +0100
Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@...e.fr> wrote:

> Le 11.03.2008 09:14, Andrew Morton a __crit :
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.25-rc5/2.6.25-rc5-mm1/
> > 
> 
> With 2.6.25-rc5-mm1, my system (Ubuntu 7.10/Gutsy) reliably hangs on
> boot. Sysrq-T shows 12 "consolechars" processes stuck in do_exit call.
> 
> The bisection said "Sucker is
> patches/signals-send_signal-factor-out-signal_group_exit-checks.patch"
> 
> Actually, it's 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 + add-warn_on_secs-macro-fix-fix.patch,
> I guess this patch is innocent.
> 

Actually I later dropped
signals-send_signal-factor-out-signal_group_exit-checks.patch at Oleg's
request.

But I don't think we did that because it was known to be buggy, so perhaps
the same bug crept back in in another form..


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