Re: 2.6.15-mm4 failure on power5

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On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:52, Dave C Boutcher wrote:
> 2.6.15-mm4 won't boot on my power5 either.  I tracked it down to the
> following mutex patch from Ingo: kernel-kernel-cpuc-to-mutexes.patch
>
> If I revert just that patch, mm4 boots fine.  Its really not obvious to
> me at all why that patch is breaking things though...

My POWER5 (gr) LPAR seems to boot ok (3 times so far) with that patch, guess 
it's something subtle. That's with CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES=y. And it's just 
booted once with CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES=n.

And now it's booted the full mm4 patch set without blinking.

cheers

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