linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.25-rc4: crash on boot when SMP enabled

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Message-ID: <20080310094326.GA9473@elf.ucw.cz>
Date:	Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:43:26 +0100
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc4: crash on boot when SMP enabled

On Thu 2008-03-06 14:58:54, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> >  > >  > On amd 8-core system, I get crash on boot... Last messages:
> >  > >  >
> >  > >  > Quad-Core AMD Opteron...
> >  > >  > Checking TSC Synchronization [CPU#0 -> CPU#3]: passed
> >  > >  > BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 00...005958
> >  > >  > IP: __alloc_pages+0x38
> >  > >  > ...
> >  > >  > Call trace:
> >  > >  > kmem_getpages
> >  > >  > cache_grow
> >  > >  > ____cache_alloc_node
> >  > >  > cpuup_callback
> >  > >  > kmem_cache_alloc_node
> >  > >  > cpuup_callback
> >  > >  > notifier_call_chain
> >  > >  > _cpu_up
> >  > >
> >  > >  could you try latest x86.git:
> >  > >
> >  > >     http://people.redhat.com/mingo/x86.git/README
> >  > >
> >  > >  does it fix it? Could be one of the numa fixes that are queued up.
> >  >
> >
> > > can we have your config and whole bootlog?
> >
> >  Config is attached.
> >
> your config works well here with all systems. wonder if you have old cpu rev.

I definitely have "strange" cpu here. But 2.6.24 works, and this new
kernel should work, too...
									Pavel
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