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Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:25:25 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
       Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Regression: boot failure on AMD Elan TS-5500
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Sean Young wrote:
> 
> I was just trying to confirm this with postive and negative tests which 
> is failing. I'm probably being an idiot, please let systematically test
> this.
> 
> This does not seem like the heisenbug category, or is it?
> 

It could easily be something timing-dependent, which might affect only X 
boots out of Y.  Please keep us posted on your testing progress.

It would also be very interesting if you put, say, a WBINVD at the point 
  of label 1:

	-hpa

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