Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for June 23

From: "Vegard Nossum" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:26:59 +0200

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Vegard Nossum <[email-masked]> wrote:
> And additionally, the next two boots hung here (but the third one was okay):
>
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/vegard/kernels/20080623-next/DSCF3015.JPG
>
> I don't know what these issues are related too. I can try
> debug_initcall for the hang.

The last initcall to run is populate_rootfs(), however the last
message on the screen is "debug: unmapping init memory
f7cb0000..f7ff0000":

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/vegard/kernels/20080623-next/DSCF3016.JPG

In fact, it seems to me that init memory is being unmapped before all
initcalls have finished... that would seem disastrous.

Vegard

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