Re: hangs after "Freeing unused kernel memory"

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Datum: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:00:09 -0800
Von: "Siva Prasad" [off-list ref]
An: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Betreff: hangs after "Freeing unused kernel memory"

Hi,

This sounds like a familiar problem, but could not get answers in posts
that came up in google search.

Yes, this is a familiar problem, at least for me. :-)

My system hangs after printing the message "Freeing unused kernel
memory". It should execute init after that, but not sure what exactly is
happening. Appreciate if some one can throw few ideas to try out.

Seems it is actually hanging when it makes the call "
run_init_process(ramdisk_execute_command)" in init/main.c

On my machine it hangs after returning from kernel_execve()/do_execve(),
which is called by run_init_process("/sbin/init"). So the problem can be
almost anywhere. The problem appeared first on kernel 2.6.17. 2.6.16
worked fine on my machine.
I'm going to try out git-bisect on these two kernel revisions, now that I
figured out what people mean when they talk about bisecting. :-) I just
have to figure out how to merge my patches with every branch that is
checked out by git-bisect.

Gerhard

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