From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261411AbUB0APb (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2004 19:15:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261393AbUB0APb (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2004 19:15:31 -0500 Received: from e6.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.106]:7637 "EHLO e6.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261411AbUB0APV (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2004 19:15:21 -0500 Subject: Re: 2.6.3-mm3 hangs on boot x440 (scsi?) From: john stultz To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Go Taniguchi , Andrew Morton , lkml In-Reply-To: <20040226231550.GY25779@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <20040222172200.1d6bdfae.akpm@osdl.org> <1077668801.2857.63.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <20040224170645.392abcff.akpm@osdl.org> <403E0563.9050007@turbolinux.co.jp> <1077830762.2857.164.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <1077836576.2857.168.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <20040226231550.GY25779@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1077840891.2857.175.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-7) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 16:14:52 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 15:15, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 03:02:56PM -0800, john stultz wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 13:26, john stultz wrote: > > > On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 06:40, Go Taniguchi wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > john stultz wrote: > > > > >>I went back to 2.6.3-mm1 (as it was a smaller diff) and the problem was > > > > >>there as well. > > > > > > > > Problem patch is expanded-pci-config-space.patch. > > > > x440 can not enable acpi by dmi_scan. > > > > expanded-pci-config-space.patch need acpi support. > > > > So, kernel can not get x440's xAPIC interrupt. > > > > > > Wow, thanks for that analysis Go! I'll test it here to confirm. > > > > Yep, I've confirmed that backing out the expanded-pci-config-space patch > > solves it. Thanks again, Go, for hunting that down! > > > > Matthew, any ideas why the patch fails if the system has an ACPI > > blacklist entry? > > Hrm. I was just asked to break out some of the ACPI code rearrangement > from the rest of the patch. Can you try this patch instead of the > expanded-pci-config-space.patch and tell me whether it continues to fail > for you? Unfortunately it does still hang with that patch. > I don't understand why it should make a difference though. It looks > to me like the current code will also fail to call the HPET code if the > bios is blacklisted. I'm a bit pressed for time at the moment, so I can't dig too deeply right now, but I'll happily test any patches you might think will help. thanks -john