Subject : 2.6.25-rc: complete lockup on boot/start of X (bisected) Submitter : Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Date : 2008-03-02 20:00 References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/2/91 Handled-By : Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> This entry is being used for tracking a regression from 2.6.24. Please don't close it until the problem is fixed in the mainline.
Caused by: commit 8f4d37ec073c17e2d4aa8851df5837d798606d6f Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Date: Fri Jan 25 21:08:29 2008 +0100 sched: high-res preemption tick
Is there any progress wrt this regression?
Patch : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/23/269
fixed in mainline by 92896bd9fd75b1c993b92874d339a8088bb75560 "Don't 'printk()' while holding xtime lock for writing"