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Date:	Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:43:16 +0100
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Ozan Çağlayan <ozan@...dus.org.tr>
Cc:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	hpa@...or.com, mingo@...e.hu, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
	jaswinder@...nel.org, stable@...nel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Boot hangs after "Freeing initrd memory" with 2.6.31.11

On Sunday 17 January 2010, Ozan Çağlayan wrote:
> Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Saturday 16 January 2010, Ozan Çağlayan wrote:
> 
> >>>
> >>> I think that the commit should be reverted or a fix should be released for linux-2.6 tree,
> >>> as well as .31 and .32 stable trees.
> >>
> >> Linux 2.6.31 is released on Sep 9th. So people having an Athlon XP processor + a kernel newer than 4 months
> >> which enables CONFIG_X86_CPU_DEBUG can't even boot into a linux kernel. I was *at least* expecting a comment from the relevant
> >> people but nope for 2 days.
> >>
> >> It seems to be a serious regression which doesn't get caught. I'm also CC'ing Rafael, maybe he can inject this
> >> in one of his regression threads.
> > 
> > Well, the problem is I'm not listing regressions from 2.6.31 any more.

I should have said "from 2.6.30" actually. 

Rafael
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