On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 14:46 +0200, Rojhalat Ibrahim wrote: > On Friday 14 June 2013 05:28:00 Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 01:47:00PM +0200, Rojhalat Ibrahim wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > the current mainline kernel from git reproducibly hangs on my Freescale > > > PowerPC P5020DS development system. Most of the time the hang occurs > > > during > > > boot (kernel just stops booting, system hangs), sometimes shortly after > > > booting (system hangs, no message). Very often booting stops at the > > > initialization of the Intel PRO 1000 PCIe network device (e1000e).
I was pretty much able to reproduce this on my PA Semi PPC box. Funny thing is, when I type on the console, it makes progress. Anyway, it seems that powerpc has an issue with irq_work(). I'll try to get some time either tonight or next week to figure it out. Thanks! -- Steve > > > > > > I used git bisect and arrived at this commit: > > > > > > 016a8d5be6ddcc72ef0432d82d9f6fa34f61b907 > > > rcu: Don't call wakeup() with rcu_node structure ->lock held > > > > > > With versions before that commit the system runs normally. > > > > Odd, given that this fix was intended to prevent hangs. Could you > > please send your .config? > > > > Thanx, Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/