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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	x86@kernel.org, Dou Liyang <douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: lapic-related boot crash in 4.15-rc1
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 19:34:19 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1801101931590.1919@nanos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.21.1801101303350.11024@math.ut.ee>

On Wed, 10 Jan 2018, Meelis Roos wrote:
> On 3 of my test computers, boot hangs with 4.15 git kernels. So far I 
> have traced it down to 4.14.0 being good and 4.15-rc1 being bad (bisect 
> is slow because the computers are somwehat remote). Also because of 
> trying to find when it started, I have not tries newer than rc5 
> kernels.
> 
> The hang happens after Performance Events feature table has been printed 
> but before APIC initialization messages normally appear ("Enabling APIC 
> mode:  Flat.  Using 0 I/O APICs" or something like that).
> 
> It happens on at least 3 distinct computers:
> * AMD Athlon with AMD 750 chipset
> * P3 1 GHz with i815 chipset
> * P4 1.7 GHz with SiS chipset
> 
> They all have have "lapic" parameter because they were telling me that 
> lapic has been disabled by BIOS and I re-enabled it with the parameter 
> to get apic timer interrupts. This worked up until 4.14.
> 
> None of the computers have IO-APICs.

Oh. Then it possibly falls into Dou's realm.

Dou?

Thanks,

	tglx

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-01-10 18:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-10 11:30 Meelis Roos
2018-01-10 11:52 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-10 15:07   ` Meelis Roos
2018-01-10 15:10     ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-10 15:17       ` Meelis Roos
2018-01-15 15:22       ` Meelis Roos
2018-01-15 16:21         ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-16  5:37           ` Meelis Roos
2018-01-16 10:13             ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-16  5:42           ` Dou Liyang
2018-01-16 12:35           ` Meelis Roos
2018-01-16 15:04             ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-16 15:34             ` Meelis Roos
2018-01-10 18:34 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2018-01-11  3:10   ` Dou Liyang

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