Bug#572442: sparc 2.6.29+ NMI watchdog deadlock on Sun Fire V240 etc

2010-03-04 Thread Josip Rodin
Package: linux-2.6 Severity: serious Tags: upstream patch Hi there, Ever since kernel 2.6.29 came out, several classes of sparc machines have been unable to upgrade, because they would get stuck while initializing the new NMI watchdog code. The process of trying to figure it out is mostly

Bug#572442: sparc 2.6.29+ NMI watchdog deadlock on Sun Fire V240 etc

2010-03-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 10:19 +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: [...] Fortunately David Miller came to the rescue and personally debugged the problem on one of the buildds, and fixed the problem. His solution, that we are currently running on schroeder.debian.org, is attached. Please include the patch

Bug#572442: sparc 2.6.29+ NMI watchdog deadlock on Sun Fire V240 etc

2010-03-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk [2010-03-04 14:59]: Please include the patch in the sparc kernel package so that we can test it widely, preferably ASAP. TIA. This is not applicable to 2.6.32 as the spinlock API has changed. I assume David will send a suitable patch to stable shortly,

Bug#572442: sparc 2.6.29+ NMI watchdog deadlock on Sun Fire V240 etc

2010-03-04 Thread David Miller
From: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:59:20 + On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 10:19 +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: [...] Fortunately David Miller came to the rescue and personally debugged the problem on one of the buildds, and fixed the problem. His solution, that we are

Bug#572442: sparc 2.6.29+ NMI watchdog deadlock on Sun Fire V240 etc

2010-03-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 07:13:03AM -0800, David Miller wrote: From: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:59:20 + On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 10:19 +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: [...] Fortunately David Miller came to the rescue and personally debugged the problem on