On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:02:57PM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote: > > we currently have a problem with latest Intel CPUs/BIOSes: > If the machine gets booted it hangs in: > init/main.c: > kdb_init();
Is this problem only on the latest Nehalem CPUs/BIOSes? Can we have more information about the machine? We're using KDB on many released and pre-release Nehalem machines with no problems. > As soon as an irq via keyboard is triggered, the machine continues > booting and everything is fine. > > Is this known already? Can someone point me to a patch? > > If not, is there a repo having the latest code, I could try > out whether the latest version works. The latest code, against 2.6.31, is git://oss.sgi.com/kdb/kdb.git > > IMO something like the attached patch makes sense? > This fixes the problem with kdb=off (our default). > But I am anxious that kdb code could still get activitated somehow > and the machine might oops when trying to access not initialized > kdb structures? Could someone give an estimation how risky that > patch really is? I'd really rather fix the underlying problem. I have no idea what that might be though... mh _______________________________________________ kdb mailing list [email protected] http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/kdb
