Subject: Re: Make sure we populate the initroot filesystem late enough

From: Segher Boessenkool <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:58:28 +0100

>>> I've not been able to reproduce it since, but I know others (BCC'ed 
>>> on
>>> this note) have seen it and might prod them to come forth with 
>>> details
>>> (and broken .config files)
>>
>> In my case, disabling CPU_FREQ_PMAC made the failure go away.
>> After reverting this patch, CPU_FREQ_PMAC is once again operating
>> successfully, so far.
>
> Hrm.. which cpufreq method is used on both your machines ? If it's the
> one involving the PMU, it does involve a full hard reset of the
> processor (with appropriate cache flushes etc...), maybe something's
> going wrong in that area....

It's most likely a red herring, lots of config changes
make the bug go away on some kernel versions (but not
on others); the problem is very sensitive to changes in
memory layout.

Segher