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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:34:17 -0700 From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> To: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@...tec.de> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>, Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@...il.com> Subject: Re: [Bug #16537] TREE_RCU hangs at boot On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 09:20:27PM +0200, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: > Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 09:08:42PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report > > > of regressions introduced between 2.6.34 and 2.6.35. > > > > > > The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions > > > introduced between 2.6.34 and 2.6.35. Please verify if it still should > > > be listed and let the tracking team know (either way). > > > > > > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16537 > > > Subject : TREE_RCU hangs at boot > > > Submitter : Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@...tec.de> > > > Date : 2010-08-07 12:18 (37 days old) > > > Handled-By : Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> > > > > I cannot reproduce this. The function that is claimed to hang contains > > only printk()s. I have asked the guys who can actually reproduce it > > to try a later kernel, and will let you know how this goes. > > > > If you cannot trust printk(), who can you trust? ;-) > > I suspect that it is related to: > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.35.y.git;a=commit;h=5a8477871f0b45664eedfa352c3942093408a169 > > I'll try to test plain 2.6.35 with this patch and see it this works. That would explain my utter failure to reproduce this bug -- I don't have a PA-RISC system. ;-) Thanx, Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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