Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:31:55 -0700 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: EDD problem -- regression -- crash on booting by probing EDD |
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On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:17:04 -0500 Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 08:35:47AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:20:44 -0300 (GFT) werner wrote: > > > > > As I tested yesterday extensively, the problem wasn't present at 2.6.24-rc5-git6 (SYS Linux 0.17 install DVD) nor at 2.6.24-rc6-git2 (SYS 0.19) , but at 2.6.24-rc6-git8 (SYS 0.20-rc1 and 0.20-rc2) and 2.6.25 (0.21-r3). > > > > > > The whole compiled packages of these kernels still are at copaya.yi.org/tgz , but I extracted the important parts, see enclosed here. The .tar.bz2 file contains the config and the protocoll of the compilation (inclusive warning / error messages). > > > > > > As you can see, the diff between the config of 2.6.24-rc6-git2 and -git8 is nothing. That means: THE ERROR ENTERED INTO THE KERNEL BETWEEN THESE TWO GITs !! > > > > Hi, > > I'm a little confused. > > > > Is this supposed to be "between 2.6.25-rc6-git2 and 2.6.25-rc6-git8"? > > You say 2.6.24-rc6-git*. I just want to make sure of which patch > > interval we are looking at. > > It's definitely .24 given the dates for the SYS releases he notes. The > diffstat between the two is relatively short [1], but I can't see > anything that can be related. This code runs so early, during real > mode startup, that my only suspects are: > > arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S | 2 +- > arch/x86/kernel/smpboot_64.c | 2 +- > include/asm-generic/tlb.h | 3 - > include/asm-x86/byteorder.h | 4 +- > include/asm-x86/msr.h | 74 +++++++++-------- > > > > [1] http://domsch.com/linux/edd-bug-2008-04-26.patch > > but none of those are obviously the culprit to me...
Yeah, there are also some IDE changes in that -rc2..-rc8 range. I'm wondering if any of them could interfere.
> Werner, the initcall_debug trace would be most helpful; without that > I'm not sure how much progress we can make on this.
That should be helpful.
--- ~Randy
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