Andrew Morton wrote:

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> On Wed, 28 May 2008 11:50:34 +0200 Alejandro Riveira Fern__ndez  <alejandro.riveira@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I sent this to the list with other mail address and it didn't reach it
>> afaics. apologies if someone sees this twice
>>
>> i cced wireless becouse of the first oops
>>
>> First boot into 2.6.26-rc4 
>>
>>   Compiled and booting into 2.6.26-rc4
>>
>>  1) With splash quiet on grub line it doesn't boot (or i didin't wait long
>>     enough)
>>  2) without quiet and splash I get into VT X filas becouse i use the evil
>>     nvidia driver that's expected. But ubuntu failsafe mode (xserver with vesa
>>     in low res) doesn't show up either *regression*
>>  3) i get an oops with network manager
>>  4) if i try to run some sudo command it gets stuck (Crtl +C doesnt' help)
>>     "ip route" gets stuck too. User programs i tried wrok fine (only ls and
>>     htop). Network realted problem?
>>
>>  5) printk times on dmesg go crazy
>>
>> But the second time a boot into it i got a working system (i even compiled the
>> *famous* nvidia driver) with only a bluetooth related oops ...
>>
>> Both dmesg follow. This is on a hardy 8.04 64 bits system. If more info is needed
>> just ask
>>
>> No working first one
>>
>> ...
>>
>> [    0.000000] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
>> [    0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at c4000000 (gap: c0000000:3f380000)
>> [    0.000000] SMP: Allowing 2 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs
>> [    0.000000] PERCPU: Allocating 33860 bytes of per cpu data
>> [    0.000000] NR_CPUS: 2, nr_cpu_ids: 2
>> [4294014.506571] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 774451
>> [4294014.506571] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,2)/vmlinuz-2.6.26-rc4 root=UUID=ee465ea1-394d-4dd2-a5f9-a35567176c40 ro
>> [4294014.506571] Initializing CPU#0
> 
> whee, time warp.
> 
> Ingo, Thomas: what's the story here?  There've been zillions of reports
> and I thought we'd already fixed it?


There is an patch[1] for this issue but I get rejects against current git.

Peter Zijlstra asked to test his v2.6.26-rc2-group-load-balance branch[2] which fixes the problem at least for me.

[1] http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10648#c3
[2] http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/20/683

Regards,

Gabriel
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