[Cbe-oss-dev] Kernel >2.6.39 on PS3 with SMP

[Andre Heider]

On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Andre Heider <a.heider at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> when I boot a recent kernel I'm getting hangs early in the boot process.
>
> The kernel boots most of the time, but when /sbin/init kicks in it
> waits forever for something. I only get a few lines of output, mostly
> udev related.
> When the kernel does not boot, it seems to hang somewhere when mapping
> the irqs (at least that's what the last lines of ps3fb output
> suggest).
> I can run into both situation with the same kernel binary. It's also
> consistent with two userlands, I tried debian stable and testing.
>
> When this happens, I can't interact with the system, so I don't have
> much more info.
>
> I bisected this to:
>
> commit 317f394160e9beb97d19a84c39b7e5eb3d7815a8
> Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra at chello.nl>
> Date:   Tue Apr 5 17:23:58 2011 +0200
>
>    sched: Move the second half of ttwu() to the remote cpu
>
> All kernels including this patch only work for me when booted with 'nosmp'.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Andre
>

Sorry, forgot to mention that "make ps3_defconfig" also produces
non-working kernels for me.

Regards,
Andre