Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 7 Apr 2008 08:46:53 -0300 | From | "Carlos R. Mafra" <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.25-current-git hangs on boot unless CONFIG_CPU_IDLE=n-Apple |
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On Sun 6.Apr'08 at 22:31:17 -0700, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote: > >On Fri 4.Apr'08 at 13:41:45 -0700, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote: > >> [...] > >> >>> >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 > >> > > >> > >> Hmmmm.... Looking at latest git, > >> The above patch is not yet in git. Can you please apply the > >above patch > >> and see whether do you still see the problem..... > > > >I applied Venkatesh's patch from the link above on top of > >v2.6.25-rc8-139-ge315c12, but my laptop hung at the 11th boot with the > >same state show here: > >http://www.ift.unesp.br/users/crmafra/dsc04673.jpg > > > >I waited 3'30" but the boot process never resumed, so I pressed > >the power button. > > > >Any further patches I might try? > > Carlos, > > Hmm. So, we still have some bug hidden in there.. > As this is similar to 10117, we should probably track this there. > 10093 is a different cpuidle specific bug looks like, as it happens at a > different place while switching between governors. > > Can you attach your kernel config, acpidump output and dmesg when kernel > boots ok to that bugzilla.
I uploaded the kernel config and dmesg to the bugzilla a few minutes ago. I don't have a copy of the acpidump with me right now (laptop is at home, I am at the physics institute now), but if there is urgency you can look at the acpidump I've sent here http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/11/364
> Also, if you can please try processor.max_cstate=2 boot option and see > whether you still can reproduce the problem. If you can, then try > processor.max_cstate=1. For this boot option to work, you have to have > ACPI_PROCESSOR built into your kernel (and should not be a module).
Ok, I will try them.
> One more qn. Did you see this problem witj 2.6.24 as well or is this > something that you started seeing only recently?
It started more or less at the same time as 2.6.25-rc1 was released. It was not there at 2.6.24.
Well, at first I thought it was related to drivers/acpi/thermal.c, because the next kernel message (in a successfull boot) after the point in which it fails is
ACPI: LNXTHERM:01 is registered as thermal_zone0
and there were some changes to that file a bit before -rc1 was out. For example, commits 3f655ef8 and ce44e19701.
I don't know if this is recommended, but I added Zhang Rui to the Cc: list to exclude or confirm this possibility.
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