Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Yinghai <> | | Subject | Re: Bisected regression (Was Re: current -git fails to boot on nehalem-ex) | | Date | Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:26:45 -0800 |
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On Dec 10, 2009, at 8:06 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> > * Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 10 2009, Jens Axboe wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> As written in the subject, it just hard hangs before writing >>> anything on >>> the console. With earlyprintk, I captured the failure, see below. >>> >>> I'll try and bisect this, but it takes some time (since the bios and >>> post process takes forever). I just updated the firmware on the >>> box as >>> well, but it did boot 2.6.32 (and RHEL5 boots fine too). Of course >>> that >>> doesn't rule out a BIOS bug. >> >> Results are persistent, git bisect points to: >> >> commit b24c2a925a9837cccf54d50aeac22ba0cbc15455 >> Author: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> >> Date: Tue Nov 24 02:48:18 2009 -0800 >> >> x86: Move find_smp_config() earlier and avoid bootmem usage >> >> which appears consistent with the panic(). Reverting that does indeed >> make current -git boot properly. > > Thanks. Yinghai, do you have any ideas, or should we revert it? > Let find the root cause
Jen
Can you boot with earlyconsole or earlyprintk and debug?
YH
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