Re: 2.4.7p6 hang

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 02:56:43PM +0200, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> >>>>> " " == Klaus Dittrich <[e-mail]> writes:
> 
>      > Kernel: 2.4.7p5 or 2.4.7p6 System: PII-SMP, BX-Chipset
> 
>      > The kernel boots up to the message
> 
>      > ..  Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University
>      > Computer Society NET3.039
> 
>      > and then stops.
> 
>      > I actually use 2.4.7p3 without problems.
> 
> I have the same problem on my setup. To me, it looks like the loop in
> spawn_ksoftirqd() is suffering from some sort of atomicity problem.

can you reproduce with 2.4.7pre5aa1?

Andrea