linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.18-mm2 boot failure on x86-64

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Message-ID: <20061005185217.GF20551@in.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 5 Oct 2006 14:52:17 -0400
From:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...ibm.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc:	Steve Fox <drfickle@...ibm.com>,
	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...ibm.com>,
	Martin Bligh <mbligh@...igh.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kmannth@...ibm.com, Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-mm2 boot failure on x86-64

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 08:27:02PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Thursday 05 October 2006 19:57, Steve Fox wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 17:40 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 
> > > Please don't snip the Code: line. It is fairly important.
> > 
> > Sorry about that. The remote console I was using appears to overwrite
> > some text after I force the reboot. Here's a clean one.
> > 
> > global ffffffffffffffff
> 
> Ok that definitely shouldn't be in there.
> 
> I guess we need to track when it gets corrupted. Can you send the full
> boot log with this patch applied?
> 

Just recalled one more observation about the problem when keith had
reported it last. If I just move .bss before .data_nosave instead
of it being at the end, keith's problem had disappeared.

Thanks
Vivek
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