Bug 267607

Summary:	[2.6.28 regression] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.28-r5 padlock_sha module hangs on load
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Stuart Shelton <srcshelton>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers <kernel>
Status:	VERIFIED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal	CC:	gengor
Priority:	High
Version:	2008.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	linux-2.6.28-regression linux-2.6.29
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Stuart Shelton 2009-04-26 23:06:36 UTC

As documented here:

http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-kernel@lists.debian.org/msg43737.html
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12823

... the padlock_sha module which accelerates SHA operations on VIA processors hangs if loaded on VIA processors(!) - or, at least, the C7.

This is problematic for headless servers which have padlock_sha in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6.  This should probably be checked for and entries removed by the ebuild, or at least a message should be output.

Comment 1 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-05-11 00:19:52 UTC

which is the last known working kernel?

Comment 2 Stuart Shelton 2009-05-12 23:19:54 UTC

2.6.27-gentoo-r8 definitely worked: I believe that this is a regression in 2.6.28.

Comment 3 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-05-12 23:39:18 UTC

According to this commit

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.29.y.git;a=commit;h=a760a6656e6f00bb0144a42a048cf0266646e22c

this should be fixed on 2.6.29 branch.

Could you please try the latest 2.6.29 sources ? That is 2.6.29-r3

Thanks

Comment 4 Mike Pagano gentoo-dev

2009-05-29 12:56:38 UTC

Please feel free to reopen after testings as described in comment #3

Comment 5 Stuart Shelton 2009-05-29 17:45:56 UTC

Apologies for the delay - I've today upgraded to 2.6.29-gentoo-r4, and that works perfectly.