Bug 21022

Summary: Kernel 2.6.36 starts and works VERY slow, with long delays
Product: Other Reporter: Ruslan (b7.10110111)
Component: OtherAssignee: other_other
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: normal CC: akpm, alan
Priority: P1    
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 2.6.36 Subsystem:
Regression: Yes Bisected commit-id:
Attachments: dmesg log for 2.6.36
Log from 2.6.34
Config file after make menuconfig

Description Ruslan 2010-10-23 23:38:36 UTC
Created attachment 34602 [details]
dmesg log for 2.6.36

First what i noticed after upgrade from 2.6.34 to 2.6.36 is very long delays between some startup messages. I used the same .config file from 2.6.34, just made 'make menuconfig'; Esc-Esc, Enter to update the configuration.
I attach the dmesg logs for 2.6.36 and 2.6.34 for comparison. Note the timestamps.
Comment 1 Ruslan 2010-10-23 23:39:55 UTC
Created attachment 34612 [details]
Log from 2.6.34
Comment 2 Ruslan 2010-10-23 23:41:19 UTC
Created attachment 34622 [details]
Config file after make menuconfig
Comment 3 Andrew Morton 2010-10-25 23:01:24 UTC
Your 2.6.36 build has

+ kmemcheck: Limiting number of CPUs to 1.
+ kmemcheck: Initialized
+ Brought up 1 CPUs
+ Total of 1 processors activated (3733.22 BogoMIPS).

Can you try disabling kmemcheck?
Comment 4 Ruslan 2010-10-26 11:14:50 UTC
Without kmemcheck it works OK.
Comment 5 Ruslan 2010-10-26 11:43:52 UTC
Changing kmemcheck on boot state from "one-shot" to "disabled" removes the delays still preserving "Limiting number of CPUs to 1".
Comment 6 Ruslan 2010-11-13 23:45:46 UTC
So... is this normal for kmemcheck, so that this bug would be invalid, or is it still a real bug?