Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756169Ab1DVTJv (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:09:51 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.213.46]:39465 "EHLO mail-yw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755448Ab1DVTJt convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:09:49 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=iuWABqs0BtBMi6WmhSZqT5Exk98Zmp0KHgesdOO54paMHPEiPidpw6jItKrKSTzqpf BSO7GxAo+RrzhoGJyhwxNlmMClhg2c9brfp/B3BOpLhvMBM8sWCKbb4763cd2ITHo3WD buPx+tWlsxE66cAxAYgcF5b9kMHWQPqwix/WQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20110422134648.GB23965@elte.hu> References: <201104222333.25546.chris@csamuel.org> <20110422134648.GB23965@elte.hu> Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 12:09:48 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 6PDQIhe_IXGsbS87nQlGqDDcwto Message-ID: Subject: Re: 2.6.38.3 and 2.6.39-rc4 hangs after "Booting the kernel" on quad Pentium Pro system From: Yinghai Lu To: Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra Cc: Chris Samuel , "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1383 Lines: 33 On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Chris Samuel wrote: > >> This box has given me good service over the past 8 years or >> so and I'd hate to have to retire it now due to this when I >> feel Linux should still work on it.. >> >> Any ideas please ? > > Have you tried the earlyprintk=vga boot parameter yet? Maybe that shows more > than just a silent hang ... > > Other than that, do you have some other box where you can build bzImages for > this system in reasonable time? If yes then you might be able to bisect to the > commit that broke it. with Chris's config for 2.6.39-rc4, current tip tree says: kernel/sched.c: In function ?sched_init?: kernel/sched.c:7845:28: error: ?load_balance_tmpmask? undeclared (first use in this function) kernel/sched.c:7845:28: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in kernel/sched.c:7845:3: warning: type defaults to ?int? in type name kernel/sched.c:7845:28: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast kernel/sched.c:7845:3: warning: type defaults to ?int? in type name -- 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/