[Bug 1022561] Re: Quantal : kexec kernel not triggered when kernel panics

2012-09-18 Thread Louis Bouchard
FYI, I just confirmed that the 3.5.0-14-generic #19 kernel fixes this issue. Thanks for your help -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1022561 Title: Quantal : kexec kernel not triggered

[Bug 1022561] Re: Quantal : kexec kernel not triggered when kernel panics

2012-08-26 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package linux - 3.5.0-12.12 --- linux (3.5.0-12.12) quantal-proposed; urgency=low [ Luis Henriques ] * [Config] Fix typo on control.stub.in [ Ricardo Salveti de Araujo ] * [Config] installing omapdrm specific headers for external drivers - LP:

[Bug 1022561] Re: Quantal : kexec kernel not triggered when kernel panics

2012-08-20 Thread Tim Gardner
** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Quantal) Importance: Medium Status: Triaged ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Quantal) Status: Triaged = Fix Committed ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Quantal) Assignee: (unassigned) = Stefan Bader (stefan-bader-canonical) -- You received this bug

[Bug 1022561] Re: Quantal : kexec kernel not triggered when kernel panics

2012-08-17 Thread Louis Bouchard
@smb @joe Any news on this bug ? Are we hoping to get that fixed for 12.10 launch ? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1022561 Title: Quantal : kexec kernel not triggered when kernel

[Bug 1022561] Re: Quantal : kexec kernel not triggered when kernel panics

2012-08-17 Thread Stefan Bader
The upstream discussion went stuck on the matter of: why make a difference between 32bit and 64bit, which nobody could answer. And for the patch that just makes things right, right now, that got ignored. So thats the news. There is plumbers coming up soon and I hope that maybe hpa is there and I

[Bug 1022561] Re: Quantal : kexec kernel not triggered when kernel panics

2012-08-17 Thread Stefan Bader
I hope the background was explained well enough in comment #11. For the experience I just tried a KVM VM 64bit which got 2G of memory. Without the patch in comment #12 the initial page tables are about 4M big. And neither with crashkernel= 28M nor with crashkernel=256M I was able to get the

[Bug 1022561] Re: Quantal : kexec kernel not triggered when kernel panics

2012-07-16 Thread Joseph Salisbury
** Tags removed: performing-bisect -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1022561 Title: Quantal : kexec kernel not triggered when kernel panics To manage notifications about this bug go

[Bug 1022561] Re: Quantal : kexec kernel not triggered when kernel panics

2012-07-13 Thread Stefan Bader
Ok, bisection ended up with: commit 722bc6b16771ed80871e1fd81c86d3627dda2ac8 Author: WANG Cong xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com Date: Mon Mar 5 15:05:13 2012 -0800 x86/mm: Fix the size calculation of mapping tables For machines that enable PSE, the first 2/4M memory region still uses

[Bug 1022561] Re: Quantal : kexec kernel not triggered when kernel panics

2012-07-13 Thread Stefan Bader
So lets see what upstream thinks about this... ** Patch added: 0001-x86-mm-Limit-2-4M-size-calculation-to-x86_32.patch https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1022561/+attachment/345/+files/0001-x86-mm-Limit-2-4M-size-calculation-to-x86_32.patch -- You received this bug

[Bug 1022561] Re: Quantal : kexec kernel not triggered when kernel panics

2012-07-13 Thread Ubuntu Foundation's Bug Bot
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[Bug 1022561] Re: Quantal : kexec kernel not triggered when kernel panics

2012-07-12 Thread Stefan Bader
While this probably is not helping much to find the issue, I want to add that I was able to get a panic once when kexec'ing into the dump kernel (had to set nomodeset to avoid higher resolution textmode): PANIC: early exception 0d rip 10:8103ee66 error 77b cr2 0 The RIP points to the

[Bug 1022561] Re: Quantal : kexec kernel not triggered when kernel panics

2012-07-12 Thread Stefan Bader
Hm, what I actually wanted to say was points to the retq... of a call to native_irq_enable call. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1022561 Title: Quantal : kexec kernel not triggered

[Bug 1022561] Re: Quantal : kexec kernel not triggered when kernel panics

2012-07-12 Thread Stefan Bader
All cases of RET causing a #GP with an error code != 0, the error code is a segment selector. Though in the long list of explanation it seems it could mean the return code segment or the stack segment. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1022561] Re: Quantal : kexec kernel not triggered when kernel panics

2012-07-12 Thread Louis Bouchard
@stefan I just tried it with nomodeset added and didn't get kexec to kick in. @joseph I will test those two kernels and let you know the outcome. I would gladly do the bissection myself in order to learn, but I'm affraid that building kernels on my laptop will take way too long. -- You

[Bug 1022561] Re: Quantal : kexec kernel not triggered when kernel panics

2012-07-12 Thread Louis Bouchard
@joe v3.4 final: OK v3.5-rc1: NOK -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1022561 Title: Quantal : kexec kernel not triggered when kernel panics To manage notifications about this bug go

[Bug 1022561] Re: Quantal : kexec kernel not triggered when kernel panics

2012-07-12 Thread Stefan Bader
@Louis, yes I can confirm the same on my machine. Will start doing a bisect between the two. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1022561 Title: Quantal : kexec kernel not triggered when

[Bug 1022561] Re: Quantal : kexec kernel not triggered when kernel panics

2012-07-10 Thread Joseph Salisbury
We can perform a kernel bisect to identify the exact commit that introduced this regression. First we need to identify the kernel version that introduced this bug. Can you test the following kernels and report back which one's have the bug: v3.4 final:

[Bug 1022561] Re: Quantal : kexec kernel not triggered when kernel panics

2012-07-09 Thread Louis Bouchard
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1022561 Title: Quantal : kexec kernel not triggered when kernel panics To manage

[Bug 1022561] Re: Quantal : kexec kernel not triggered when kernel panics

2012-07-09 Thread Joseph Salisbury
Hi Louis, Would it be possible for you to see if this bug also exists in the latest mainline kernel[0]? That will tell us if it is already fixed. [0] http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.5-rc6-quantal/ ** Tags added: kernel-da-key ** Tags added: regression-release ** Changed in:

[Bug 1022561] Re: Quantal : kexec kernel not triggered when kernel panics

2012-07-09 Thread Brad Figg
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[Bug 1022561] Re: Quantal : kexec kernel not triggered when kernel panics

2012-07-09 Thread Louis Bouchard
Hello Joe, Just tested the most recent mainline kernel : still has the same issue with the following : $ uname -a Linux QuantalSA-crash 3.5.0-030500rc6-generic #201207072135 SMP Sun Jul 8 01:35:57 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- You received this bug notification because you are a