the patches caused a boot hang with this config: http://redhat.com/~mingo/misc/config-Wed_Jul__9_14_47_04_CEST_2008.bad i have bisected it down to: commit e17b58c2e85bc2ad2afc07fb8d898017c2b75ed1 Author: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Jul 7 12:07:53 2008 -0700 xen: implement Xen-specific spinlocks i.e. applying that patch alone causes the hang. The hang happens in the ftrace self-test: initcall utsname_sysctl_init+0x0/0x19 returned 0 after 0 msecs calling init_sched_switch_trace+0x0/0x4c Testing tracer sched_switch: PASSED initcall init_sched_switch_trace+0x0/0x4c returned 0 after 167 msecs calling init_function_trace+0x0/0x12 Testing tracer ftrace: [hard hang] it should have continued like this: Testing tracer ftrace: PASSED initcall init_function_trace+0x0/0x12 returned 0 after 198 msecs calling init_irqsoff_tracer+0x0/0x14 Testing tracer irqsoff: PASSED initcall init_irqsoff_tracer+0x0/0x14 returned 0 after 3 msecs calling init_mmio_trace+0x0/0x12 initcall init_mmio_trace+0x0/0x12 returned 0 after 0 msecs note: ftrace is a user of raw spinlocks. Another speciality of the config is that it has paravirt enabled (obviously), and that it also has lock debugging enabled. Ingo _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
