linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.30-rc8 Oops whilst booting

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0906080916130.6847@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Mon, 8 Jun 2009 09:21:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Chris Clayton <chris2553@...glemail.com>
cc:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>,
	NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	James Bottomley <james.bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
	scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.30-rc8 Oops whilst booting



On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Chris Clayton wrote:
> 
> OK. I reversed that change and built and installed the kernel. It has
> withstood 100 reboots without a panic. Additionally, I pulled the
> latest changes (that will be rc8-git5, I think) from kernel.org,
> reversed the change to that kernel and built and installed it. That
> too withstood 100 reboots without a panic.
> 
> Let me know if there's anything else I can do to help fix this.

That's already pretty convincing.

James, Arjan? The original oops message is here (a jpg screen capture, 
unable to open initial console):

	http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/6/142

and it's this bug entry:

	Bug-Entry       : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13474
	Subject         : Oops whilst booting
	Submitter       : Chris Clayton <chris2553@...glemail.com>
	Date            : 2009-06-06 18:59 (2 days old)
	References      : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124431487924254&w=4

and now bisected down to 

>> commit d5a877e8dd409d8c702986d06485c374b705d340
>> Author: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
>> Date:   Sun May 24 13:03:43 2009 -0700
>>
>>     async: make sure independent async domains can't accidentally entangle

please advice. Otherwise I'll have to revert.

		Linus
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