Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752782Ab0HWB4W (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:56:22 -0400 Received: from mail-qw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.216.46]:45652 "EHLO mail-qw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751809Ab0HWB4U convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:56:20 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=As024MQUgRLcGbBX8W3lE8z8kCfndxqKTkHWL+th9psKgiqTruhZOSDnuXPenz4eAz FkNWtRZVM1qUGe1Y/mzByaovBjxj5X7wso91vctmfOi4nA88RD/znRwO+nPDjb6zQEw3 EFv/KmnYf7EpAQrOtMmp9bn8w1fibUUfmsPO4= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4C71CF5B.3090505@zytor.com> References: <4C6F4BBB.5040207@zytor.com> <4C71CF5B.3090505@zytor.com> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:56:19 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.35.3 From: Mark Stanovich To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1779 Lines: 47 On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 9:31 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 08/20/2010 09:06 PM, Mark Stanovich wrote: >>>> >>>> I noticed that the latest version pulled from Linus's git tree did not >>>> have the problem. ?After looking at the changes to >>>> arch/x86/include/asm/cmpxchg_32.h, I cherry-picked two patches from >>>> Linus's tree that seemed to make a difference, namely: >>>> >>>> 69309a05907546fb686b251d4ab041c26afe1e1d >>>> 4532b305e8f0c238dd73048068ff8a6dd1380291 >>>> >>>> Applying these patches solved the rebooting problem on 2.6.35.3 >>>> >>>> I believe the same problem also happens for the latest stable version of >>>> 2.6.34, but did not verify the fix worked for the 2.6.34 stable releases. >>>> >>>> I don't know if this is helpful, but I thought I would let you know in >>>> case someone else is having the same problem. >>>> >>>> If you need any further information, just let me know. >>>> >>> >>> Yes, as a matter of fact, we have been trying to root-cause this >>> problem; please see: >>> >>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16612 >>> >>> If you could try the one-liner in there and see if it solves your >>> problem, it would be great. >> >> The patch for __set_64bit on top of 2.6.35.3 solves the rebooting problem! >> >> > > By the way, I think only 69309a05907546fb686b251d4ab041c26afe1e1d should > solve the problem. ?Mark, could you try only this patch? > Tested 69309a05907546fb686b251d4ab041c26afe1e1d on top of 2.6.35.3 and this does solve the rebooting problem. - Mark -- 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/