Subject: Re: Next March 25: Boot failure on powerpc [recursive locking detected]

From: Sachin Sant <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:04:40 +0530

Sachin Sant wrote:
> Today's next failed to boot on a powerpc box
> (Power6 blade IBM,7998-61X) with following recursive locking message.
>
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> [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
> 2.6.29-next-20090325 #1
After bisecting the failure seems to be because of the following
patch from James ( block: move SCSI timeout check into block )

http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8017/

If i back out the above mentioned patch, the machine boots fine
without any problems.

Thanks
-Sachin

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Sachin Sant
IBM Linux Technology Center
India Systems and Technology Labs
Bangalore, India
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