Subject: Re: locking api self-test hanging

From: Andrew Morton <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 15:07:44 -0800

On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 15:02:46 -0800 Andrew Morton <[email-masked]> wrote:

> 
> With current mainline I'm getting intermittent hangs here:
> 
> 	http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/p2033590.jpg
> 
> with this config:
> 
> 	http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-sony.txt
> 
> on the Vaio.  Sometimes it boots (then hits another different hang),
> sometimes it gets stuck there.
> 

The second hang is in kobject_uevent_init().  All that function does is call
netlink_kernel_create().

These things make bisecting all the other bugs rather hard.