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Message-Id: <20120323122244.132198e3.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:22:44 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
Milton Miller <miltonm@....com>
Subject: Re: Boot failure with next-20120208
On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:16:41 -0800
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
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> > The bug looks pretty generic, nothing very PPC-specific there. It
> > might affect other architectures - we won't know until we find out
> > wht caused it.
>
> well one half of the race looks pretty generic...
> ..... doesn't mean the other half of the race is though....
>
>
> >
> > Ho hum, I suppose I should pull the patch out of linux-next, to
> > avoid disrupting other testing. This means it's going to be hard
> > to get the bug fixed.
>
> it means losing this one big PPC machine indeed.... until they hit
> that same race some other way with regular real cpu hotplug ;-(
So we're kinda stuck with this. As I can't merge it, I guess I'll make
smp-start-up-non-boot-cpus-asynchronously.patch disappear.
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