Re: Bisected regression (Was Re: current -git fails to boot on nehalem-ex)

[Yinghai <yinghai@kernel.org>]

On Dec 10, 2009, at 8:06 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

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> * Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Dec 10 2009, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> As written in the subject, it just hard hangs before writing  
>>> anything on
>>> the console. With earlyprintk, I captured the failure, see below.
>>>
>>> I'll try and bisect this, but it takes some time (since the bios and
>>> post process takes forever). I just updated the firmware on the  
>>> box as
>>> well, but it did boot 2.6.32 (and RHEL5 boots fine too). Of course  
>>> that
>>> doesn't rule out a BIOS bug.
>>
>> Results are persistent, git bisect points to:
>>
>> commit b24c2a925a9837cccf54d50aeac22ba0cbc15455
>> Author: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
>> Date:   Tue Nov 24 02:48:18 2009 -0800
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>>    x86: Move find_smp_config() earlier and avoid bootmem usage
>>
>> which appears consistent with the panic(). Reverting that does indeed
>> make current -git boot properly.
>
> Thanks. Yinghai, do you have any ideas, or should we revert it?
>
Let find the root cause

Jen

Can you boot with earlyconsole or earlyprintk and debug?

YH