Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:56:19 -0400 | | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.35.3 | | From | Mark Stanovich <> |
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On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 9:31 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: > On 08/20/2010 09:06 PM, Mark Stanovich wrote: >>>> >>>> I noticed that the latest version pulled from Linus's git tree did not >>>> have the problem. After looking at the changes to >>>> arch/x86/include/asm/cmpxchg_32.h, I cherry-picked two patches from >>>> Linus's tree that seemed to make a difference, namely: >>>> >>>> 69309a05907546fb686b251d4ab041c26afe1e1d >>>> 4532b305e8f0c238dd73048068ff8a6dd1380291 >>>> >>>> Applying these patches solved the rebooting problem on 2.6.35.3 >>>> >>>> I believe the same problem also happens for the latest stable version of >>>> 2.6.34, but did not verify the fix worked for the 2.6.34 stable releases. >>>> >>>> I don't know if this is helpful, but I thought I would let you know in >>>> case someone else is having the same problem. >>>> >>>> If you need any further information, just let me know. >>>> >>> >>> Yes, as a matter of fact, we have been trying to root-cause this >>> problem; please see: >>> >>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16612 >>> >>> If you could try the one-liner in there and see if it solves your >>> problem, it would be great. >> >> The patch for __set_64bit on top of 2.6.35.3 solves the rebooting problem! >> >> > > By the way, I think only 69309a05907546fb686b251d4ab041c26afe1e1d should > solve the problem. Mark, could you try only this patch? >
Tested 69309a05907546fb686b251d4ab041c26afe1e1d on top of 2.6.35.3 and this does solve the rebooting problem.
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