On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 11:39:17 -0700 Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 08:32:18 +0200 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > This still happens with 2.6.26-rc9. Using CONFIG_NUMA=y boots OK. > > > > > > Ok, then it wasn't the nr_zones thing. > > > > > > Since it seems to be repeatable for you, can you bisect it? > > > > one guess would be: > > > > | commit e8ee6f0ae5cd860e8e6c02807edfa3c1fa01bcb5 > > | Author: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> > > | Date: Sun Apr 13 01:41:58 2008 -0700 > > | > > | x86: work around io allocation overlap of HT links > > > > but ... since CONFIG_NUMA makes it work, i'm not sure about that. > > > > Randy, could you post the full CONFIG_NUMA bootlog as well, does it show > > any difference in resource allocations? > > Good and bad boot logs are attached. There are several differences, but I don't > see any that are significant. > > I've started bisecting with: > > $ git bisect start > $ git bisect bad v2.6.26-rc1 > $ git bisect good v2.6.25 > > That's only about 1.29M lines of changes. git bisect and normal rebooting did not find a problem. I'll repeat this using kexec to boot the new kernel and see if that locates any issues... since I normally use kexec to load/test new kernels and that was how the failure occurred (occurs). --- ~Randy Linux Plumbers Conference, 17-19 September 2008, Portland, Oregon USA http://linuxplumbersconf.org/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
