Most recent kernel where this bug did not occur: 2.6.15 Distribution: Gentoo Hardware Environment: IBM Thinkpad T22 (1Ghz Pentium III, 256 MB RAM) Problem Description: With 2.6.16-rc6, loading the yenta_socket module hard-freezes my system (neither magic sysrq nor software watchdog work). If I boot with acpi=off, everything works. Steps to reproduce: Boot with init=/bin/bash so that you can control module loading, then execute modprobe yenta_socket
Created attachment 7563 [details] boot dmesg from 2.6.16-rc6
Created attachment 7564 [details] lspci -vv output
*mumble* sorry, I thought I had reproduced this with an unpatched 2.6.16-rc6, but it seems not... I guess this is a dynticks bug or something. Marking INVALID, I'll take it over to Con Kolivas.