Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265597AbUA0Aii (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2004 19:38:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265608AbUA0Aii (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2004 19:38:38 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:60059 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265597AbUA0Aia (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2004 19:38:30 -0500 Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 16:38:18 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: "John Stoffel" Cc: stoffel@lucent.com, ak@muc.de, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, bunk@fs.tum.de, cova@ferrara.linux.it, eric@cisu.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.2-rc2 Hangs on boot (was: [patch] Re: Kernels > 2.6.1-mm3 do not boot. - SOLVED) Message-Id: <20040126163818.3ca49458.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <16405.44635.564011.414832@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <200401232253.08552.eric@cisu.net> <200401251639.56799.cova@ferrara.linux.it> <20040125162122.GJ513@fs.tum.de> <200401251811.27890.cova@ferrara.linux.it> <20040125173048.GL513@fs.tum.de> <20040125174837.GB16962@colin2.muc.de> <200401251800.i0PI0SmV001246@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20040125191232.GC16962@colin2.muc.de> <16404.9520.764788.21497@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20040125202557.GD16962@colin2.muc.de> <16404.10496.50601.268391@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20040125220027.30e8cdf3.akpm@osdl.org> <16405.44635.564011.414832@gargle.gargle.HOWL> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1710 Lines: 44 "John Stoffel" wrote: > > ... > It hangs at the following spot: > > Linux version 2.6.2-rc2 (john@jfsnew) (gcc version 3.3.3 20040110 > (prerelease) (Debian)) #2 SMP Mon Jan 26 09:17:00 EST 2004 > BIOS-provided physical RAM map: > BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable) > BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) > BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000002fffe000 (usable) > BIOS-e820: 000000002fffe000 - 0000000030000000 (reserved) > BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved) > BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee10000 (reserved) > BIOS-e820: 00000000ffe00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) > 767MB LOWMEM available. > found SMP MP-table at 000fe710 > hm, page 000fe000 reserved twice. > hm, page 000ff000 reserved twice. > hm, page 000f0000 reserved twice. > On node 0 totalpages: 196606 > DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1 > Normal zone: 192510 pages, LIFO batch:16 > HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1 > > > Should I start adding in printks, or would it make sense to go back > through the various 2.6.2-bk# snapshots looking for where the problem > hit? Adding printk's is a pretty quick-n-easy way of finding out where it is getting stuck. Just add #define AAA() printk("%s:%d\n", __FILE__, __LINE__) to kernel.h and sprinkle AAA()'s everywhere. It takes a few iterations to drill right down to the bug. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/