Re: Early boot oops with 2.5.67-bk(current) on a dual Athlon-MP

Nicholas Wourms (nwourms@myrealbox.com)
Mon, 14 Apr 2003 09:50:33 -0400


Andrew Morton wrote:
> Nicholas Wourms <nwourms@myrealbox.com> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Attached is the oops (which results in a panic) when I
>>attempt to boot the lastest bk current on my machine.
>
>
> The MCE code is using the workqueue infrastructure waaaaaaay earlier than it
> is allowed to. It looks like the timer went off before the workqueue
> initialisation had been run.
>
> This should fix it.
>

Andrew,

Thanks for the patch. No oops this time around, but now it
freezes at the exact same point in the boot process. My
keyboard (usb) stops responding entirely, thus eliminating
any use of the Magic SysRq key. Same config as before, with
your patch applied.

Cheers,
Nicholas

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