linux-next: spinlock lockup with next-20081118 on powerpc
Jens Axboe
jens.axboe at oracle.com
Thu Nov 20 01:37:37 EST 2008
On Thu, Nov 20 2008, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Jens,
>
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:34:09 +0100 Jens Axboe <jens.axboe at oracle.com> wrote:
> >
> > Are you removing devices or modules? We have a bug there it seems, does
> > this help?
>
> This is early in boot (we are waiting for the root device while running
> on the initramfs) so there could well be modules being unloaded.
>
> That patch makes the problem go away.
Excellent, since it was an apparent but, I already updated the original
patch with this hunk.
Thanks a lot for your bisection work, Stephen!
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Jens Axboe
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