Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: 2.6.25-current-git hangs on boot unless CONFIG_CPU_IDLE=n-Apple | Date | Fri, 4 Apr 2008 10:37:08 -0700 | From | "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <> |
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>-----Original Message----- >From: Carlos R. Mafra [mailto:crmafra2@gmail.com] >Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 8:52 AM >To: Pallipadi, Venkatesh >Cc: Ray Lee; Rafael J. Wysocki; Linux Kernel Mailing List; >Pallipadi@ogre.sisk.pl; Soeren Sonnenburg >Subject: Re: 2.6.25-current-git hangs on boot unless >CONFIG_CPU_IDLE=n-Apple > >On Fri 4.Apr'08 at 7:25:34 -0700, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote: >> >> >> >-----Original Message----- >> >From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org >> >[mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of >> >Carlos R. Mafra >> >Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 4:48 AM >> >To: Ray Lee >> >Cc: Pallipadi, Venkatesh; Rafael J. Wysocki; Linux Kernel >> >Mailing List; Pallipadi@ogre.sisk.pl; Soeren Sonnenburg >> >Subject: Re: 2.6.25-current-git hangs on boot unless >> >CONFIG_CPU_IDLE=n -Apple >> > >> >On Thu 3.Apr'08 at 20:15:02 -0700, Ray Lee wrote: >> >> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Carlos R. Mafra >> ><crmafra2@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > On Thu 3.Apr'08 at 17:14:22 -0700, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote: >> >> > > >The following report is on the current list of known >> >regressions >> >> > > >from 2.6.24. Please verify if the issue is still >> >present in the >> >> > > >mainline. >> >> > > > >> >> > > > >> >> > > >Bug-Entry : >http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10093 >> >> > > >Subject : 2.6.25-current-git hangs on boot >> >> > > >unless CONFIG_CPU_IDLE=n - Apple >> >> > > >Submitter : Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@nn7.de> >> >> > > >Date : 2008-02-23 18:55 (41 days old) >> >> > > >References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/23/263 >> >> > > > >> >> > > >http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=120387537018467&w=4 >> >> > > >Handled-By : Pallipadi, Venkatesh >> ><venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> >> >> > > > >> >> > > >> >> > > Last comment I saw from Soeren says it does not really >> >hang. It waits >> >> > > for 5-10 seconds sometimes before continuing. We are >> >still trying to >> >> > > narrow this down with max_cstate etc.. >> >> > >> >> > I should say that my laptop (Vaio) _hangs_ at boot (less >> >than 10% of boots) >> >> > and this is the last message I see: >> >> > >> >> > "ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports 8 throttling states)" >> >> > >> >> > and it stays there "forever" (more than 1 or 2 minutes >at least). >> >> > >> >> > I am not using my laptop too much these days, and I >thought this >> >> > bug had been solved because it didn't hang for the >last week (but >> >> > I boot it once per day), however it hang last night (using some >> >> > post 2.6.25-rc7 kernel) >> >> > >> >> > I have pictures of the screen while showing this last >> >message at boot, >> >> > should I post it somewhere or that is not necessary?. >> >> >> >> If the sysrq key still works when that happens, try to do >a sysrq-t, >> >> s, b to generate a trace, sync the filesystem, and reboot. >> >If anything >> >> made it to the logs, please post it. >> > >> >Sysrq keys don't work when it hangs, I have to push the >power button. >> > >> >Another thing to notice is that when it happens, it usually happens >> >more times in a row (like 3 times). And then it can take >many boots to >> >happen again. >> > >> >I've uploaded the picture where it hangs, it is in the very >beginning >> >of the boot process: >> > >> >http://www.ift.unesp.br/users/crmafra/dsc04673.jpg >> >> >> Can you try the latest git and see whether this still is a problem? > >I've just updated to latest git, but it may take some time for it >to happen again (the first 3 boots were okay). Last time it happened >with 2.6.25-rc7-00149-gaf8be4e (I checked now). > >Do you have reasons to believe this issue was fixed since then?
Yes. I think the patch here should have fixed the problem.... Patch : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120674502201007&w=4
Thanks, Venki
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