3.0-rc1: powerpc hangs at Kernel virtual memory layout

[Christian Kujau]

On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 at 17:33, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> It -looks- to me that something goes wrong in the tty code when a large
> file is piped through a pty, causing the kernel to hang for minutes in
> the workqueue / ldisk flush code. I've just sent an initial report to
> Alan Cox about it and am currently bisecting it.

This was the "tty vs workqueue oddities" thread, right? FWIW, 
55db4c64eddf37 ("Revert "tty: make receive_buf() return the amout of bytes 
received"") seems to have fixed it on this powerpc machine as well.

With your "ssb: pci: Don't call PCIe specific workarounds on PCI cores" 
patch applied, powerpc32 seems to be quite happy with 3.0-rc1+

Thanks,
Christian.
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