Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753718AbYLIPlS (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2008 10:41:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751234AbYLIPlE (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2008 10:41:04 -0500 Received: from mx1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:55344 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751021AbYLIPlD (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2008 10:41:03 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 07:36:54 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Bruno =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pr=E9mont?= Cc: Linux Kernel , Ingo Molnar , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Stefan Winter Subject: Re: [2.6.27.4-5 stable regressions] Kernel boot early crash with low-64k reservation patches Message-ID: <20081209153654.GC25679@suse.de> References: <20081209083440.7569d7a0@pluto.restena.lu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20081209083440.7569d7a0@pluto.restena.lu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 844 Lines: 26 On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 08:34:40AM +0100, Bruno Pr?mont wrote: > Hi, > > On a VMWare (ESX 3.5.0 Update 3) guest we get boot failure at the very > beginning of boot process. (Boot successful with 2.6.27.4, failing with > 2.6.27.x where x > 4 or just adding the 5 patches below to 2.6.27.4) > > State of config option > CONFIG_X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K=y > or > # CONFIG_X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K not set > does not make any difference. Does the 2.6.27.8 kernel work better for you, or does it also fail? Also, have you tried the 2.6.28-rc releases to see if the problem is also there? thanks, greg k-h -- 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/