Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:47:23 -0400 | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.35.3 | From | Mark Stanovich <> |
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On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 09:56:19PM -0400, Mark Stanovich wrote: >> 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. >
69309a05907546fb686b251d4ab041c26afe1e1d is also needed on top of 2.6.34.5 in order for my machine to boot properly.
- Mark
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