Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759270AbYHaOD6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:03:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756948AbYHaODs (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:03:48 -0400 Received: from mout5.freenet.de ([195.4.92.95]:41145 "EHLO mout5.freenet.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757208AbYHaODp (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:03:45 -0400 Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:03:40 +0200 From: Gerhard Brauer To: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann Cc: "Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" , Mathieu Desnoyers , "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.{26.2,27-rc} oops on virtualbox Message-ID: <20080831140340.GD4305@tux1.brauer.lan> References: <20080826141851.GA5300@tux1.brauer.lan> <20080828103013.163730ee@doriath.conectiva> <20080831092923.GB4305@tux1.brauer.lan> <200808311528.27353.s.L-H@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200808311528.27353.s.L-H@gmx.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18-muttng (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1870 Lines: 44 On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 03:28:22PM +0200, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: > Hi > > On Sonntag, 31. August 2008, Gerhard Brauer wrote: > [...] > > Ok, some news from archlinux side: > > Our distribution kernel was upgraded from 2.6.26.2 to 2.6.26.3. With > > this upgrade to patchlevel .3 the "early oops"(freeing smp...) has gone. > > My virtual machines boots always fine with this, and i have one > > confirmation from a user about this. > > Sorry, I can't confirm this here on Debian unstable (with virtualbox-ose > 1.6.2 or 1.6.4), are you sure that other configuration options didn't > change between the different kernel versions? Preemption and paravirt can > influence the probability of the early boot panic seriously, without really > avoiding it alltogether. Only changes between our 2.6.26.2-1 and 2.6.26.3-1 are some minor framebuffer changes in config. If i have a look at the different patchsets between the two versions i don't see something which could be the reason between work and not work. > Actually I still get the same issues with implanting > ftp://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/archlinux/core/os/i686/kernel26-2.6.26.3-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz > into the test vm using virtualbox-ose 1.6.4. Hmm, one user also reports that he have no problem when using a vanilla 2.6.26 as guest kernel. But there must be some reasons when different distributions notice a major problem between 2.6.25 and 2.6.26 with their stock kernels. Although i don't even know if our few reports here are very representavive... > Regards > Stefan Lippers-Hollmann Gerhard -- Heute ist das Morgen wovor du gestern Angst hattest... -- 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/