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Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:33:02 -0700 From: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com> To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, "Soeren Sonnenburg" <kernel@....de> Cc: "Adrian Bunk" <bunk@...nel.org>, "Carlos R. Mafra" <crmafra2@...il.com>, "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: RE: [Bug #10117] 2.6.25-current-git sometimes hangs on boot - dual-core Sony Vaio >-----Original Message----- >From: Rafael J. Wysocki [mailto:rjw@...k.pl] >Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:24 PM >To: Soeren Sonnenburg >Cc: Pallipadi, Venkatesh; Adrian Bunk; Carlos R. Mafra; Linux >Kernel Mailing List >Subject: Re: [Bug #10117] 2.6.25-current-git sometimes hangs >on boot - dual-core Sony Vaio > >On Tuesday, 15 of April 2008, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: >> On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 14:09 -0700, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote: >> > >> > >-----Original Message----- >> > >From: Rafael J. Wysocki [mailto:rjw@...k.pl] >> > >Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:04 PM >> > >To: Adrian Bunk >> > >Cc: Carlos R. Mafra; Linux Kernel Mailing List; Soeren >> > >Sonnenburg; Pallipadi, Venkatesh >> > >Subject: Re: [Bug #10117] 2.6.25-current-git sometimes hangs >> > >on boot - dual-core Sony Vaio >> > > >> > >On Tuesday, 15 of April 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote: >> > >> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:33:38PM +0200, Rafael J. >Wysocki wrote: >> > >> > On Tuesday, 15 of April 2008, Carlos R. Mafra wrote: >> > >> > > On Sun 13.Apr'08 at 17:25:45 -0300, Carlos R. Mafra wrote: >> > >> > > > On Sun 13.Apr'08 at 20:56:41 +0200, Rafael J. >Wysocki wrote: >> > >> > > > > This message has been generated automatically as a >> > >part of a report >> > >> > > > > of recent regressions. >> > >> > > > > >> > >> > > > > The following bug entry is on the current list of >> > >known regressions >> > >> > > > > from 2.6.24. Please verify if it still should >be listed. >> > >> > > > > >> > >> > > > > >> > >> > > > > Bug-Entry : >> > >http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10117 >> > >> > > > > Subject : 2.6.25-current-git sometimes >> > >hangs on boot - dual-core Sony Vaio >> > >> > > > > Submitter : Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@....de> >> > >> > > > > Date : 2008-02-23 18:55 (51 days old) >> > >> > > > > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/23/263 >> > >> > > > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/4/41 >> > >> > > > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/9/69 >> > >> > > > >> > >> > > > Soeren said it no longer happens to him in >> > >http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/9/53 >> > >> > > > but unfortunately it still happens with me using -rc9. >> > >So I kidnapped his >> > >> > > > bugzilla report :-) >> > >> > > > >> > >> > > > In the bugzilla entry I said earlier today that >> > >"hpet=disable" apparently >> > >> > > > makes the problem go away (42 boots OK so far, whereas >> > >without this >> > >> > > > boot option it hangs ~90% using vga=6 and ~10% using >> > >vga=0x0364) >> > >> > > > >> > >> > > > I tried to bisect it, but sometimes in pre 2.6.25-rc1 >> > >kernels it takes >> > >> > > > 30 boots before the first hang to occur. So bisection >> > >is not reliable... >> > >> > > > >> > >> > > > If someone proposes a patch I will be glad to test it! >> > >> > > > >> > >> > > > PS: The similar bug in buzilla 10377 also appears >to be "fixed" >> > >> > > > by using hpet=disable, see comment #17 in that bug. >> > >> > > >> > >> > > >> > >> > > From what Mark Lord said in his comments #33 to #35 in >> > >> > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10117 >> > >> > > it appears that this is a much older regression, >from april 2007. >> > >> > > >> > >> > > So this is a regression, but not from 2.6.24 >(although somehow >> > >> > > it never hit me before). I don't know about the >policy of closing >> > >> > > regressions that come from way before the previous >> > >kernel version, >> > >> > > if there is any. Then I will let you manage the >bugzilla #10117 >> > >> > > as you see fit (but I will be "there" to hopefuly test any >> > >> > > proposed patches). >> > >> > >> > >> > I dropped the bug from the list of recent regressions, so >> > >it doesn't block >> > >> > bug #9832 any more. However, this still is a bug and >> > >regression, so the >> > >> > bugzilla entry remains open. >> > >> >> > >> Soerens original report was a 2.6.25 regression. >> > >> >> > >> And #10377 that was closed as a duplicate of #10117 was also >> > >reported as >> > >> a 2.6.25 regression. >> > >> >> > >> #10117 seems to suffer from the common disease of people >> > >hijacking an >> > >> existing bug, but Soeren's issue that was what was >> > >originally tracked in >> > >> #10117 is (or was) a 2.6.25 regression. >> > > >> > >Well, I'm really not 100% sure it was a regression from 2.6.24 >> > >and I'm not >> > >sure bug #10377 should have been marked as a duplicate. >> > > >> > >I made bug #10117 block bug #9832 again, but it would be nice >> > >to sort this out. >> > > >> > >Why do we think that the cause of bugs #10117 and #10377 >is the same? >> > > >> > >Rafael >> > > >> > >> > Both of them probabilistically hang early in the boot. >> > On both !CPUIDLE and hpet=disable seems to be working around the >> > problem. >> > Both are Core 2 Duo based with 64 bit kernel. >> > >> > One difference I saw was that #10377 fails on battery. That may be >> > because when on battery CPUs may be running at lower freq >during boot >> > and that is probably helping this problem in terms of timing. >> >> FWIW, this macbook pro1,1 has only a core 1 duo, so x86 == 32bit... > >So I think we should leave bug #10117 to track the original >issue (hangs on >MacBook Pro1.1 w/ Intel Core Duo x86-32), reopen bug #10377 >and use that >to track the Core 2 Duo 64-bit issues. > >Any objections to that? > Last I heard from Soeren, this was not reproducable on 32 bit any more. All recent updates on #10117 from Carlos is on Core-2 Duo 64 bit. If the problem is still reproducable on 32 bit then probably having 2 bugzillas to track is fine with me. Thanks, Venki -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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