Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:06:40 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
       "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, yinghai@kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bisected regression (Was Re: current -git fails to boot on
 nehalem-ex)
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* Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 10 2009, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > As written in the subject, it just hard hangs before writing anything on
> > the console. With earlyprintk, I captured the failure, see below.
> > 
> > I'll try and bisect this, but it takes some time (since the bios and
> > post process takes forever). I just updated the firmware on the box as
> > well, but it did boot 2.6.32 (and RHEL5 boots fine too). Of course that
> > doesn't rule out a BIOS bug.
> 
> Results are persistent, git bisect points to:
> 
> commit b24c2a925a9837cccf54d50aeac22ba0cbc15455
> Author: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
> Date:   Tue Nov 24 02:48:18 2009 -0800
> 
>     x86: Move find_smp_config() earlier and avoid bootmem usage
> 
> which appears consistent with the panic(). Reverting that does indeed
> make current -git boot properly.

Thanks. Yinghai, do you have any ideas, or should we revert it?

	Ingo
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