Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755799Ab0ARBGy (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:06:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755683Ab0ARBGw (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:06:52 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:55603 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755673Ab0ARBGv (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:06:51 -0500 Message-ID: <4B53B218.6000607@zytor.com> Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:58:00 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091209 Fedora/3.0-3.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?T3phbiDDh2HEn2xheWFu?= CC: Yinghai Lu , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , mingo@elte.hu, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, jaswinder@kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" Subject: Re: Boot hangs after "Freeing initrd memory" with 2.6.31.11 References: <4B4E1633.8010700@pardus.org.tr> <4B4EC0A1.3090503@pardus.org.tr> <4B4ECB1C.6070000@kernel.org> <4B4EF35D.3040203@pardus.org.tr> <4B4F1764.2040406@pardus.org.tr> <4B4F1DE7.307@pardus.org.tr> <4B51B0E8.1010302@pardus.org.tr> In-Reply-To: <4B51B0E8.1010302@pardus.org.tr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1018 Lines: 25 On 01/16/2010 04:28 AM, Ozan Çağlayan wrote: > > Linux 2.6.31 is released on Sep 9th. So people having an Athlon XP processor + a kernel newer than 4 months > which enables CONFIG_X86_CPU_DEBUG can't even boot into a linux kernel. I was *at least* expecting a comment from the relevant > people but nope for 2 days. > > It seems to be a serious regression which doesn't get caught. I'm also CC'ing Rafael, maybe he can inject this > in one of his regression threads. > Anything which involves enabling CONFIG_X86_CPU_DEBUG can hardly be considered serious. It's a broken piece of work that should never have gotten into the kernel in the first place. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- 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/