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From: Sachin Sant <sachinp@in•ibm.com>
To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs•helsinki.fi>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PowerPC] 2.6.30-git14 boot failure with SLAB
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:36:03 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A3BC57B.8000408@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A3B615F.8090504@in.ibm.com>

Sachin Sant wrote:
> 2.6.30-git14 (0732f87761dbe417cb6e084b712d07e879e876ef) fails to boot
> on various PowerPC machines. Here are last few boot messages from a 
> Power6
> box.
<SNIP>

>
> I will go back and check what changes between git10 and git11
> could have caused this boot failure.
>
The offending commit seems to be c868d550115b9ccc0027c67265b9520790f05601.
mm: Move pgtable_cache_init() earlier

If i revert this commit, the machine boots fine.

Thanks
-Sachin

-- 

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Sachin Sant
IBM Linux Technology Center
India Systems and Technology Labs
Bangalore, India
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-19 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-19  9:58 [PowerPC] 2.6.30-git14 boot failure with SLAB Sachin Sant
2009-06-19 17:06 ` Sachin Sant [this message]
2009-06-19 22:29   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-20  7:26     ` Sachin Sant

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