Re: 2.6.28-rc2: REGRESSION in early boot

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Thu Nov 06 2008 - 01:03:16 EST


On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 09:22:38AM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> > What is your theory for why this was causing a failure in the timer
>> > subsystem? Were we overrunning the end of irq_desc array and stomping
>> > on some other data structure?
>>
>> Yes. Please do apply that two patches at first.
>>
>
> Success! Applying these two patches, as found at:
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/4/431
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/5/81
>
> ... and my 2.6.28-rc3-git2 based kernel successfully booted on my
> system.
>
> I'll update: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11951
> accordingly. Are these two patches scheduled to be pushed to
> mainstream, hopefully ASAP since they are a regression fix?

thanks.

Ingo, please check those two patches.

YH
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