On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:16:26 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:45:25 PST, Andrew Morton said: > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc3/2.6.24-rc3-mm1/ > > Finally got both time and motivation to at least start a bisect.. > > 2.6.23-mm1 works on my D820 (x86_64 kernel, Core2 Duo T7200) > > 24-rc3-mm1 (plus 3 patches from hotfixes/) bricks *instantly* at boot - grub > prints its 3 or 4 lines saying what it loaded, the screen clears, and *blam* > dead. No serial console output, no pair of penguins on the monitor, no > netconsole, no earlyprintk=vga output, no alt-sysrq, only thing that does > *anything* is "hold the power button for 5 seconds". Whatever it is, it > happens *very* early (before we get as far as the 'Linux version 2.6.mumble' > banner), and happens *hard*. > > I've bisected it down this far: > > git-ipwireless_cs.patch GOOD > git-x86.patch > git-x86-fixup.patch > git-x86-thread_order-borkage.patch > git-x86-thread_order-borkage-fix.patch > git-x86-identify_cpu-fix.patch > git-x86-memory_add_physaddr_to_nid-export-for-acpi-memhotplugko.patch > git-x86-memory_add_physaddr_to_nid-export-for-acpi-memhotplugko-checkpatch-fixes.patch > git-x86-inlining-borkage.patch > x86_64-set-cpu_index-to-nr_cpus-instead-of-0.patch > x86_64-make-sparsemem-vmemmap-the-default-memory-model-v2.patch BAD > > Anybody got any good debugging ideas before I go through and do the final > 3 or 4 bisects? I suspect I'll need them once I find the offending patch > to tell *why* said patch dies on my box - I've seen enough traffic regarding > -rc3-mm1 dying *later* to know it's probably a subtle issue and not one > that will be obvious once I finger a specific patch. For example, it's > probably not the IO-APIC panic that people are seeing, because their kernels > live long enough to panic. ;) >
You could try http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ - we might have already fixed it. Otherwise, please proceed to work out which diff I need to drop and hope like hell that it isn't git-x86.. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/