Subject: Re: netconsole still hangs

From: Andrew Morton <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:59:01 -0700

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:10:53 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <[email-masked]> wrote:

> From: Andrew Morton <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:57:17 -0700
> 
> > I reran the test on 2.6.24 and all seemed fine: the machine didn't hang and
> > stopping the script stopped the netconsole output.
> 
> Can you go back and bisect the tree in one shot to the guilty
> commit you found last time, and make sure this test case
> works at that point?

Plain old

git-checkout 33f807ba0d9259e7c75c7a2ce8bd2787e5b540c7 seems to dtrt.

git-checkout 33f807ba0d9259e7c75c7a2ce8bd2787e5b540c7

  Fails very very easily.  Basically the machine never successfully boots.

git-checkout 0953864160bdd28dfe45fd46fa462b4d2d53cb96

  Works OK.

So yes, I'd say that the revert was not complete.

aside: running that while loop just slays the machine.  It took 30 seocnds
to respond to ^C (across ssh over the same link).  There's some severe
starvation happening somewhere.