Bug 12760

Summary: 2.6.29-rc5 hanging at boot when CONFIG_LOCK_STAT=y
Product: Platform Specific/Hardware Reporter: Rafael J. Wysocki (rjw)
Component: i386Assignee: platform_i386
Status: CLOSED CODE_FIX    
Severity: normal CC: mingo
Priority: P1    
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 2.6.29-rc5 Subsystem:
Regression: Yes Bisected commit-id:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 12398    

Description Rafael J. Wysocki 2009-02-23 14:53:55 UTC 
Subject    : 2.6.29-rc5 hanging at boot when CONFIG_LOCK_STAT=y
Submitter  : "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
Date       : 2009-02-16 6:50
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123476768023893&w=4
Handled-By : Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Notify-Also : Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

This entry is being used for tracking a regression from 2.6.28.  Please don't
close it until the problem is fixed in the mainline.
Comment 1 Rafael J. Wysocki 2009-02-25 15:10:43 UTC 
On Tuesday 24 February 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> (note, the standalone mail of this bug entry did not make it out 
> for some reason.)
> 
> * Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
> 
> > Bug-Entry   : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12760
> > Subject             : 2.6.29-rc5 hanging at boot when CONFIG_LOCK_STAT=y
> > Submitter   : Adam J. Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>
> > Date                : 2009-02-16 6:50 (8 days old)
> > References  : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123476768023893&w=4
> > Handled-By  : Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> 
> Here we came to the conclusion that this is some LILO bug with a 
> too large BSS section - that's one thing that CONFIG_LOCK_STAT 
> causes. Under Grub the same kernel image boots fine. So unless 
> Adam has new data that contradicts this i think we can close 
> this bug.