Re: 2.6.27-rc5 doesn't boot on a Pavilion laptop

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Dmitry Nezhevenko wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 09:08:41PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > > Does the patch below help ? Keep the debug patch applied, as we can
> > > > see whether the check triggers or not.
> > > 
> > > Works for me... I'm just got only second backtrace after mounting rootfs.
> > > Looks like something is broken with  git tree. 
> > 
> > Is the box continuing to work after that warning/backtrace ? This is
> > still on the x86 git tree, right ? Please verify whether mainline
> > (linus git tree) has the same problem.
> > 
> 
> I've just tried 2.6.27-rc5 vanilla with two your patches. It works as
> expected without any kind of warnings/backtraces. 
> 
> Not attaching dmesg, because it's just clean. If you need it, please
> download from:
> http://inhex.net/dion/lkml/dmesg_hpet_fix.txt
> 
> If this patch will be commited to mainline, bug #11101 can be closed as
> fixed.
> 
> PS. CC-ed Glauber, because #11101 is assigned to him.

Well, we better find out what's wrong in the x86 tree _before_ it hits
2.6.28. So please keep the bug open, so we don't have to reopen it
after 2.6.28-rc1. This IPI warning needs to be anaylsed.

Thanks,

	tglx