From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752753Ab2ABNvB (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jan 2012 08:51:01 -0500 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:37708 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751089Ab2ABNu7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jan 2012 08:50:59 -0500 Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 14:48:56 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Steven Rostedt Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Frederic Weisbecker Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] [GIT PULL] tracing: fixes/cleanups, no stop-machine, update stack tracer Message-ID: <20120102134856.GA32673@elte.hu> References: <20111221123624.193898256@goodmis.org> <20120101180949.GA25066@elte.hu> <20120102105856.GA6661@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120102105856.GA6661@elte.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-ELTE-SpamScore: -2.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.0 required=5.9 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.3.1 -2.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] 0.0 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Ingo Molnar wrote: > Just to give you an impression of how a failure looks like, the > serial console just stops printing mid-line: > > [ 53.212942] calling vt1211_init+0x0/0x9b @ 1 > [ 53.212971] initcall vt1211_init+0x0/0x9b returned -19 after 23 usecs > [ 53.212975] calling sm_vt8231_init+0x0/0x1b @ 1 > Booting 'Fedora' > > and the next message is GRUB's 'Booting ...' line. here's another one: [ 53.224579] calling sm_via686a_init+0x0/0x1b @ 1 [ 53.224622] bus: 'pci': add driver via686a Booting 'Fedora This occured after a series of 50 successful bootups ... Unfortunately this means that the 'baseline' numbers are probably not reliable. Thanks, Ingo