On Monday, January 31, 2011, Ozan Çağlayan wrote: > On 31.01.2011 22:42, Ozan Çağlayan wrote: > > > Well I've actually a screenshot of the boot hang with tons of debugging > > parameters passed to kernel. Maybe it will give you a clue. It hangs > > right after printing e820 system memory map. > > > > http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/attachment.cgi?id=6554 > > > > Well the line that is printed just after when booting with nolapic is NX > (Execute Disable) protection: active > generated by x86_report_nx(). > > I looked through kernel/setup.c and can't really see anything between > setup_memory_map() which dumps the e820 map and x86_report_nx() which > could be affected by ACPI or nolapic. BTW, I've just seen that nolapic > is only significant on X86_32. I didn't know that.
Well, it would be good to verify that the recent changes adding NX protection to kernel data pages aren't causing these issues to appear. Hmm. Perhaps it's possible to test this patch on the affected boxes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=45192 Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
