Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 09:35:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 09:35:11 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-5-cust12.swa.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.121.12]:17391 "EHLO irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 09:35:11 -0400 Subject: Re: [PANIC] APM bug with -rc4 and -rc5 From: Alan Cox To: Willy TARREAU Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , lkml In-Reply-To: <20020801133202.GA200@pcw.home.local> References: <20020801121205.GA168@pcw.home.local> <20020801133202.GA200@pcw.home.local> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 (1.0.3-6) Date: 01 Aug 2002 15:55:32 +0100 Message-Id: <1028213732.14865.50.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 869 Lines: 18 On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 14:32, Willy TARREAU wrote: > > I observe a kernel panic at boot time if I set apm=power-off. OK with apm=off. > > This is on an ASUS A7M266D with two Athlon XP 1800+. Since it works well on > > 2.4.19-pre10, I'm recompiling intermediate versions to check which one brought > > the problem. > > > > This is rather strange, since the crash occurs in do_softirq, but 2 bytes after I've only run -ac on the box (I need the IDE) and that has subtly different APM code. I do not however understand why it has changed behaviour. I could understand if it did it at the actual poweroff point but not earlier - 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/