On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 07:46:46PM -0800, David Miller wrote: > > tried 2.6.27.2 today, but this hangs already at loading the kernel. > > Output is attached. Please tell me what else I can provide. > > Unfortunately, "-p" doesn't do anything any more and the kernel > is stopping or crashing during the part of the boot between > when the early prom console is disabled and the real console is > setup. > > The way to debug this is to manually get rid of the CON_BOOT flag > in the early prom console structure, like the following patch. Applied your patch to the 2.6.27.9 vanilla source and booted, console output up to the hang is below. Just to remember: 2.6.26.5 did not hang. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Sun Fire 880, No Keyboard Copyright 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. OpenBoot 4.22.34, 8192 MB memory installed, Serial #50911524. Ethernet address 0:3:ba:8:d9:24, Host ID: 8308d924. ERROR: OpenBoot Diagnostics failed WARNING: Device /pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@2 being marked with 'status' == fail Rebooting with command: boot Boot device: disk File and args: SILO Version 1.4.13 boot: Linux 27.9 LinuxOLD boot: 27.9 Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel Loaded kernel version 2.6.27 Loading initial ramdisk (5350711 bytes at 0xA000400000 phys, 0x40C00000 virt)... \ [ 0.000000] PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 'OBP 4.22.34 2007/07/23 13:01' [ 0.000000] PROMLIB: Root node compatible: [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu [ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.27.9 (hlauer@install1) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #1 SMP Thu Dec 18 17:20:27 CET 2008 [ 0.000000] console [earlyprom0] enabled [ 0.000000] ARCH: SUN4U [ 0.000000] Ethernet address: 00:03:ba:08:d9:24 [ 0.000000] Kernel: Using 2 locked TLB entries for main kernel image. [ 0.000000] Remapping the kernel... done. [ 0.000000] OF stdout device is: /pci@9,700000/ebus@1/serial@1,400000:a [ 0.000000] PROM: Built device tree with 102802 bytes of memory. [ 0.000000] Top of RAM: 0xa1ffb1a000, Total RAM: 0x1ffb0e000 [ 0.000000] Memory hole size: 655360MB [ 0.000000] [0000000318000000-fffff8a000c00000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1120/0 [ 0.000000] [0000000318000000-fffff8a001000000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1121/0 [ 0.000000] [0000000318700000-fffff8a001400000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1122/0 [ 0.000000] [0000000318700000-fffff8a001800000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1123/0 [ 0.000000] [0000000318e00000-fffff8a001c00000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1124/0 [ 0.000000] [0000000318e00000-fffff8a002000000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1125/0 [ 0.000000] [0000000319500000-fffff8a002400000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1126/0 [ 0.000000] [0000000319c00000-fffff8a002800000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1127/0 [ 0.000000] [0000000319c00000-fffff8a002c00000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1128/0 [ 0.000000] [000000031a300000-fffff8a003000000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1129/0 [ 0.000000] [000000031a300000-fffff8a003400000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1130/0 [ 0.000000] [000000031aa00000-fffff8a003800000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1131/0 [ 0.000000] [000000031aa00000-fffff8a003c00000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1132/0 [ 0.000000] [000000031b100000-fffff8a004000000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1133/0 [ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges: [ 0.000000] Normal 0x05000000 -> 0x050ffd8d [ 0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node [ 0.000000] early_node_map[4] active PFN ranges [ 0.000000] 0: 0x05000000 -> 0x050ff7ff [ 0.000000] 0: 0x050ff800 -> 0x050ffd09 [ 0.000000] 0: 0x050ffd0b -> 0x050ffd7b [ 0.000000] 0: 0x050ffd7e -> 0x050ffd8d [ 0.000000] Booting Linux... [ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 1040779 [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda1 ro [ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes) [ 0.000000] clocksource: mult[640000] shift[16] [ 0.000000] clockevent: mult[28f5c28] shift[32] [ 46.108402] Console: colour dummy device 80x25 [ 46.161498] console [tty0] enabled [ 0.000000] PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 'OBP 4.22.34 2007/07/23 13:01' [ 0.000000] PROMLIB: Root node compatible: [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu [ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.27.9 (hlauer@install1) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #1 SMP Thu Dec 18 17:20:27 CET 2008 [ 0.000000] console [earlyprom0] enabled [ 0.000000] ARCH: SUN4U [ 0.000000] Ethernet address: 00:03:ba:08:d9:24 [ 0.000000] Kernel: Using 2 locked TLB entries for main kernel image. [ 0.000000] Remapping the kernel... done. [ 0.000000] OF stdout device is: /pci@9,700000/ebus@1/serial@1,400000:a [ 0.000000] PROM: Built device tree with 102802 bytes of memory. [ 0.000000] Top of RAM: 0xa1ffb1a000, Total RAM: 0x1ffb0e000 [ 0.000000] Memory hole size: 655360MB [ 0.000000] [0000000318000000-fffff8a000c00000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1120/0 [ 0.000000] [0000000318000000-fffff8a001000000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1121/0 [ 0.000000] [0000000318700000-fffff8a001400000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1122/0 [ 0.000000] [0000000318700000-fffff8a001800000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1123/0 [ 0.000000] [0000000318e00000-fffff8a001c00000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1124/0 [ 0.000000] [0000000318e00000-fffff8a002000000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1125/0 [ 0.000000] [0000000319500000-fffff8a002400000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1126/0 [ 0.000000] [0000000319c00000-fffff8a002800000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1127/0 [ 0.000000] [0000000319c00000-fffff8a002c00000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1128/0 [ 0.000000] [000000031a300000-fffff8a003000000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1129/0 [ 0.000000] [000000031a300000-fffff8a003400000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1130/0 [ 0.000000] [000000031aa00000-fffff8a003800000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1131/0 [ 0.000000] [000000031aa00000-fffff8a003c00000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1132/0 [ 0.000000] [000000031b100000-fffff8a004000000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1133/0 [ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges: [ 0.000000] Normal 0x05000000 -> 0x050ffd8d [ 0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node [ 0.000000] early_node_map[4] active PFN ranges [ 0.000000] 0: 0x05000000 -> 0x050ff7ff [ 0.000000] 0: 0x050ff800 -> 0x050ffd09 [ 0.000000] 0: 0x050ffd0b -> 0x050ffd7b [ 0.000000] 0: 0x050ffd7e -> 0x050ffd8d [ 0.000000] Booting Linux... [ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 1040779 [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda1 ro [ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes) [ 0.000000] clocksource: mult[640000] shift[16] [ 0.000000] clockevent: mult[28f5c28] shift[32] [ 46.108402] Console: colour dummy device 80x25 [ 46.161498] console [tty0] enabled [ 49.320774] Dentry cache hash table entries: 1048576 (order: 10, 8388608 bytes) [ 49.426009] Inode-cache hash table entries: 524288 (order: 9, 4194304 bytes) [ 49.786779] Memory: 8301680k available (2928k kernel code, 1104k data, 208k init) [fffff80000000000,000000a1ffb1a000] [ 49.991734] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 19.90 BogoMIPS (lpj=39810) [ 50.085944] Security Framework initialized [ 50.134751] SELinux: Disabled at boot. [ 50.180620] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 [ 50.235257] Initializing cgroup subsys ns [ 50.282662] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct [ 50.335781] Initializing cgroup subsys devices [ 50.390759] CPU 0: synchronized TICK with master CPU (last diff 0 cycles, maxerr 11 cycles) [ 50.390776] Brought up 2 CPUs [ 50.391634] net_namespace: 1552 bytes [ 50.568542] NET: Registered protocol family 16 -- Netzwerkadministration/Zentrale Dienste, Interdiziplinaeres Zentrum fuer wissenschaftliches Rechnen der Universitaet Heidelberg IWR; INF 368; 69120 Heidelberg; Tel: (06221)54-8236 Fax: -5224 Email: Hermann.Lauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
