Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 07:13:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 07:13:09 -0400 Received: from trantor.dso.org.sg ([192.190.204.1]:58846 "EHLO trantor.dso.org.sg") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 07:12:54 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 19:15:35 +0800 From: Richard Shih-Ping Chan To: Alan Cox Cc: Richard Shih-Ping Chan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: -ac10,-ac11 no boot on SMP PentiumII box Message-ID: <20011011191535.D1174@cshihpin.dso.org.sg> In-Reply-To: <20011011165636.B1174@cshihpin.dso.org.sg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 10:31:54AM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I confirm its a gcc interaction kernel 2.4.10-ac11 CONFIG_X86_PPRO_FENCE defined gcc-2.96-96 from rawhide OK! gcc-3.0.1 with Linus tree spinlock.h OK! gcc-3.0.1 with Alan tree spinlock.h BIG FREEZE :((( Thanks. On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 10:31:54AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > I've narrowed it down to the change between 2.4.10-ac8 and > > -ac9. Maybe it has something to do with CONFIG_X86_PPRO_FENCE? > > That is the obvious candidate. I changed spin_unlock for the ppro to cover > an errata. It seems to work for me with gcc 2.96 but its asm so its possible > I've done something some compiler version didnt like. > > Switch the include/asm-i386/spinlock,h to the one in Linus tree and see > what happens > - -- Richard Chan DSO National Laboratories 20 Science Park Drive Singapore 118230 Tel: 7727045 Fax: 7766476 - 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/