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SubjectRe: Config NO_BOOTMEM breaks my amd64 box

* James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> > >
> > > Yes, it was happening with -rc3.
> >
> > Could you please send the bootlog that Yinghai asked for, plus also one that
> > you get with NO_BOOTMEM turned off (for comparison)?
>
> I don't have the old boot logs, and have since upgraded the system
> further.

Please, could you send any bootlog then that we could work from? That way we
could check the memory layout and guess the rough shape of the early
allocations, etc.

> IIRC, the boot was failing after not being able to find the root fs
> (ext3/lvm/raid0). I thought it was a dracut issue, but it seemed to be
> fixed by enabling bootmem.

Ok - initrd unpack failing or initial mount failing is consistent with the
initrd getting corrupted by overlapping early reservations due to allocator
bug.

> > Also, when did you first hit this bug? This code has been upstream for
> > almost a month, and it was in linux-next before that - so you should have
> > hit this much sooner. A rough timeframe would suffice. I suppose you were
> > booting upstream kernels during the merge window as well?
>
> In this case, in the last few days (also when I first saw or noticed the
> bootmem option). I was booting relatively recent linus kernels during the
> merge window, although my main work was being done on an older upstream
> kernel.

Ok, so it's not an old regression but possibly a bug in one of the fixes. Not
good.

Ingo


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