linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.29-rc5 hanging at boot when CONFIG_LOCK

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Message-ID: <20090216122912.GA6302@elte.hu>
Date:	Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:29:12 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	"Adam J. Richter" <adam@...drasil.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc:	peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.29-rc5 hanging at boot when CONFIG_LOCK_STAT=y


* Adam J. Richter <adam@...drasil.com> wrote:

> Hello Peter and Ingo,
> 
> 	Under linux-2.6.29-rc5, and I believe all earlier 2.6.29-rc
> releases, CONFIG_LOCK_STAT=y causes my system to hang at boot when
> booting from lilo-22.8.  Linux-2.6.28 does not have this hang.
> Disabling LOCK_STAT or booting from grub avoids the hang.  These are
> sufficient workarounds for me, but I document it here in case anyone
> else is seeing something similar or wants to take a deeper look at it.

hm, so if booting from LILO you see a hang, while when booting with GRUB 
it works fine?

Could it be LILO messing up the kernel image loading somehow? LOCK_STAT 
might just be the thing that brings the kernel over a specific size.

	Ingo
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