first bisection results in -mm3 [was: Re: 2.6.15-mm2: reiser3 oops on suspend and more (bonus oops shot!)]

[Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>]

[cleaned up some Cc as this is not interesting to all MLs]

Andrew,

first bisection spotted the cause of the stalls at boot (happening while
starting portmap and after usb-storage scan):

time-clocksource-infrastructure.patch
time-generic-timekeeping-infrastructure.patch
time-i386-conversion-part-1-move-timer_pitc-to-i8253c.patch
time-i386-conversion-part-2-rework-tsc-support.patch
time-i386-conversion-part-3-enable-generic-timekeeping.patch
time-i386-conversion-part-4-remove-old-timer_opts-code.patch
time-i386-conversion-part-5-acpi-pm-variable-renaming-and-config-change.patch
time-i386-clocksource-drivers.patch
time-fix-cpu-frequency-detection.patch

Cc-ed john stultz

actually git bisect[1] pointed to time-fix-cpu-frequency-detection.patch
but it's clearly wrong. Reverting all the above patches (I suppose they
are somewhat related) fixes the stalls I experience. I can test
corrections if necessary.

eh, see: during the multiple boots I noticed that just hitting sysrq
make the boot process go on when stuck

...
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
 sda: sda1
 sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
 /etc/rcS.d/S04udev: line 224:  2347 Quit                    sleep 0.2
...
Starting portmap daemon: portmap.
/etc/rcS.d/S43portmap: line 24:  2678 Quit                    sleep 1
...

I'll re-bisect the thing tomorrow to spot what's causing reiserfs oops

[1]: I imported the patches into git by means of:
while [ $(quilt next) ] ; do 
	quilt push && git add && git commit -a -m "$(quilt top)" ; 
done
-- 
mattia
:wq!