linux-kernel - Re: [Bug #13941] x86 Geode issue

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Date:	Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:00:42 +0300
From:	Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk@....fi>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Bug #13941] x86 Geode issue

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki<rjw@...k.pl> wrote:
> On Thursday 13 August 2009, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
>> 2009/8/13 Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk@....fi>:
>> > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Ingo Molnar<mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>> >> * Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk@....fi> wrote:
>> >>> Yes, this bug is still valid.
>> >>>
>> >>> Ubuntu kernel team member Leann Ogasawara and I are slowly
>> >>> bisecting our way through the changes that took place since 2.6.30
>> >>> to find the commit that introduced this regression. Please stay
>> >>> tuned.
>> >>
>> >> hm, the only outright Geode related commit was:
>> >>
>> >>  d6c585a: x86: geode: Mark mfgpt irq IRQF_TIMER to prevent resume failure
>> >>
>> >> the jpg at:
>> >>
>> >>  http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28892781/00002.jpg
>> >>
>> >> is very out of focus - but what i could decypher suggests a
>> >> pagefault crash in the VFS code, in generic_delete_inode().
>>
>> This one might be a bit better:
>>
>> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30267494/2.6.31-5.24.jpg
>>
>> >> Which could be a VFS bug, or a filesystem bug, or some unrelated
>> >> memory corruption hitting the inode data structure.
>> >
>> > It could indeed be many things.
>> >
>> > I've been trying to boot this into a larger framebuffer to be able to
>> > fit more data into my snapshots, but it appears that vga=795 doesn't
>> > work anymore. Have we reverted to Hex values again or is this just an
>> > issue of some kernel module missing from initrd?
>>
>> Never mind. Seems that vesafb was blacklisted. Works now. See the
>> image above. :)
>
> OK, so I guess the bug should be closed?

No, it cannot.  Please read the above more carefully.

Martin-Éric
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