Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756161AbYAGJTj (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jan 2008 04:19:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754060AbYAGJTc (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jan 2008 04:19:32 -0500 Received: from E23SMTP06.au.ibm.com ([202.81.18.175]:60260 "EHLO e23smtp06.au.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753789AbYAGJTb (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jan 2008 04:19:31 -0500 Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 14:48:38 +0530 From: Dhaval Giani To: Ingo Molnar Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Vivek Goyal , hbabu@us.ibm.com, lkml , kexec@lists.infradead.org, maneesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Andrew Morton , tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com Subject: Re: kexec refuses to boot latest -mm Message-ID: <20080107091838.GA30865@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: Dhaval Giani References: <20071228124532.GB32643@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20071231150843.GB27060@redhat.com> <20080103195201.GC6392@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <200801032242.01425.rjw@sisk.pl> <20080104122816.GF4514@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20080104155415.GC6007@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20080106133729.GB2481@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080106133729.GB2481@elte.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3052 Lines: 76 On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 02:37:29PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Dhaval Giani wrote: > > > So I went ahead and bisected -mm, and the culprit is git-x86. It boots > > fine before it, but with git-x86 applied, it fails to boot. > > > > Ingo/Thomas, could you please point me to the git-x86 tree so that I > > can bisect it? (with instructions on how to pull the -mm branch, I > > managed to pull the master branch, but not the -mm branch) > > sure: > > --------------{ x86.git instructions }----------> > > git-clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git linux-2.6.git > cd linux-2.6.git > git-branch x86 > git-checkout x86 > git-pull git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git mm > git-log HEAD@{1}.. # see what's in #mm > Thanks for the instructions. I went ahead and did the bisect, and commit 7dd838ea7afa42a8840cf0e262d5892346ecf379 Author: H. Peter Anvin Date: Sat Jan 5 13:27:04 2008 +0100 is the first bad commit. git bisect log dhaval@kernel:~/mm$ git bisect log git-bisect start # good: [439f61b9f9ebbf84fb7e6b3539fc3794e046bbb9] Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 git-bisect good 439f61b9f9ebbf84fb7e6b3539fc3794e046bbb9 # bad: [5c9b01f1566f4989bb732a46c9a9c86f3e7ef9ae] x86: unregister PIT clocksource when PIT is disabled git-bisect bad 5c9b01f1566f4989bb732a46c9a9c86f3e7ef9ae # good: [203bcdc3d2725751e4dc0e3749edbab3c8bf9132] move switch_to macro to system.h git-bisect good 203bcdc3d2725751e4dc0e3749edbab3c8bf9132 # good: [81886a1b16eec7a27f3ec94f06f585685ad08bf2] x86: i387 renaming git-bisect good 81886a1b16eec7a27f3ec94f06f585685ad08bf2 # bad: [fc0ed2251da6ef8ad3295a02b39bed9859dc0cfc] x86: unify arch/x86/kernel/Makefile(s) git-bisect bad fc0ed2251da6ef8ad3295a02b39bed9859dc0cfc # good: [6fa16686ee2b0cc6b02a59671ecb9d4c85beae64] change assembly definition of paravirt_patch_site git-bisect good 6fa16686ee2b0cc6b02a59671ecb9d4c85beae64 # bad: [1184caa02fcc2ecd780b145f4c69cc4484a8cde4] git-x86: arch/x86/math-emu/errors.c: fix printk warnings git-bisect bad 1184caa02fcc2ecd780b145f4c69cc4484a8cde4 # good: [e8189d0ca1970578f4b28f92928581313633be5a] x86_64 patching functions git-bisect good e8189d0ca1970578f4b28f92928581313633be5a # bad: [7dd838ea7afa42a8840cf0e262d5892346ecf379] i386: handle an initrd in highmem git-bisect bad 7dd838ea7afa42a8840cf0e262d5892346ecf379 # good: [8cff7d1301d37b15add1dabe6ac8a92e6c0a1c7f] i386 EFI runtime service support: fixes in sync with x86_64 support git-bisect good 8cff7d1301d37b15add1dabe6ac8a92e6c0a1c7f # good: [ac3836d03c718a553634ff21c1157bb823567f4f] x86: arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c whitespace fixes git-bisect good ac3836d03c718a553634ff21c1157bb823567f4f -- regards, Dhaval -- 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/