Re: 2.6.30-rc8 Oops whilst booting

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Jun 08 2009 - 12:23:48 EST




On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Chris Clayton wrote:
>
> OK. I reversed that change and built and installed the kernel. It has
> withstood 100 reboots without a panic. Additionally, I pulled the
> latest changes (that will be rc8-git5, I think) from kernel.org,
> reversed the change to that kernel and built and installed it. That
> too withstood 100 reboots without a panic.
>
> Let me know if there's anything else I can do to help fix this.

That's already pretty convincing.

James, Arjan? The original oops message is here (a jpg screen capture,
unable to open initial console):

http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/6/142

and it's this bug entry:

Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13474
Subject : Oops whilst booting
Submitter : Chris Clayton <chris2553@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date : 2009-06-06 18:59 (2 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124431487924254&w=4

and now bisected down to

>> commit d5a877e8dd409d8c702986d06485c374b705d340
>> Author: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date:   Sun May 24 13:03:43 2009 -0700
>>
>>     async: make sure independent async domains can't accidentally entangle

please advice. Otherwise I'll have to revert.

Linus
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