Re: 2.5.48 hangs during boot

From: William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Date: Thu Nov 21 2002 - 21:11:31 EST


On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 05:58:37PM -0800, Matthew Dobson wrote:
> Hello all,
> 2.5.48 + Bill/Martin's noearlyirq patch hangs on boot on our NUMA-Q
> machines. It boots normally up to
> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 524288 bind 65536)
> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 268k freed
> Then it *VERY* slowly proceeds to output a few more lines before hanging
> completely. The lines come out one at a time, with large time delays
> between each line. The last bit of output I get is the enabling swap line.
> The -mm1 patch fixes this problem, and I'm in the process of determining
> exactly what fixes it. Any input/ideas would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks!
> -Matt

get the axboe/akpm fixes for the elevator deadlock and/or an intermediate
bk tree. This is an io scheduling issue.

Bill
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sat Nov 23 2002 - 22:00:39 EST