Re: [BUG,2.6.29-rc7,s390] System goes into endless loop duringboot or logon

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Mar 09 2009 - 04:25:36 EST


On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 02:53 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> Follow-up to an issue reported on the linux-s390 list, seen in the
> Hercules S/390 emulator.
>
> On Sunday 08 March 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
> > Well, not quite. It does boot successfully and I do get a login prompt.
> > I can also login on the console or connect with SSH, but in both cases
> > the system again gets into some loop before I actually get a shell
> > prompt.
>
> During the bisection series the system would sometimes enter the loop
> during the boot procedure, before I tried to logon. After it enters the
> loop one processor just goes racing at 100%.

Where? Do you have NMI watchdog output, or even sysrq-t?

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