Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:09:57 -0600 | From | Larry Finger <> | Subject | Re: 3.2-rc2 freezes on boot for AMD K6 - bisected to commit bcb80e53877c2045d9e52f4a71372c3fe6501f6f |
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On 11/29/2011 11:59 PM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > On 11/30/2011 10:24 AM, Larry Finger wrote: > >> I have an ancient laptop with an AMD-K6 CPU that freezes on boot with >> 3.2-rc2. The problem was bisected to commit bcb80e53877c2. >> >> The cpuinfo for this box is: >> >>>> cpu.1: cpuinfo >> ----- /proc/cpuinfo ----- >> processor : 0 >> vendor_id : AuthenticAMD >> cpu family : 5 >> model : 8 >> model name : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor >> stepping : 12 >> cpu MHz : 428.804 >> cache size : 64 KB >> fdiv_bug : no >> hlt_bug : no >> f00f_bug : no >> coma_bug : no >> fpu : yes >> fpu_exception : yes >> cpuid level : 1 >> wp : yes >> flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr cx8 pge mmx syscall 3dnow >> k6_mtrr up >> bogomips : 857.60 >> clflush size : 32 >> cache_alignment : 32 >> address sizes : 32 bits physical, 32 bits virtual >> power management: >> >> ----- /proc/cpuinfo end ----- >> >> This patch is quite simple, thus it appears that rdmsr() is OK, but that >> rdmsr_safe() is not. >> >> I am happy to provide any other info regarding this box. >> > > > Hi Larry, > > Can you please try out the patch posted in > https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/28/178 ? > > This patch will be available in mainline kernel from -rc4. > https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/28/457
Srivatsa,
Thanks for the reference. That patch does fix my problem. Too bad that the bad commit was not in the subject of that other thread so that I could have found it with Google.
Larry
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