William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 02:07:37AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc4/2.6.22-rc4-mm1/ >> - Somebody broke it on my powerpc G5, but I didn't have time to do yet >> another bisection yet. >> - There's a lengthy patch series here from Nick which attempts to address >> the longstanding pagefault-vs-buffered-write deadlock. >> A great shower of filesystems were broken and have been disabled with >> CONFIG_BROKEN. This includes reiser4. >> - Complex patches which eliminate the kernel's fixed size limit on the >> command-line length. These break nommu builds. > > Someone remind me what the pagefault vs. buffered write deadlock is. > > Something brings down i386/qemu before even earlyprintk can handle. > > Bisection has narrowed it down to patch 1140 after everything got > renumbered by peterz' fix for mm-variable-length-argument-support.patch, > namely containersv10-make-cpusets-a-client-of-containers.patch
Interestingly (and perhaps unrelatedly) on my _good_ boots the first printk is no longer the kernel banner but the following which sounds container related also: Initializing container subsys cpuset -apw - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
