linux-kernel - Re: RFC: starting a kernel-testers group for newbies

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Message-ID: <20080502154406.GA6545@beyonder.ift.unesp.br>
Date:	Fri, 2 May 2008 12:44:06 -0300
From:	"Carlos R. Mafra" <crmafra2@...il.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...il.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, davem@...emloft.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jirislaby@...il.com,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: starting a kernel-testers group for newbies

On Fri  2.May'08 at  7:58:25 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2 May 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > 
> > But for users this is a recent regression since 2.6.24 worked
> > and 2.6.25 does not.
> 
> Totally and utterly immaterial.
> 
> If it's a timing-related bug, as far as developers are concerned, nothing 
> they did introduced the problem.
> 
> So anybody who think s that "process" should have caught it is just being 
> stupid. 

So I would like to ask you what an user should do when facing what is
probably a timing-related bug, as it appears I have the bad luck
of hitting one.

See for example my comments after this one 
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10117#c11

This same problem is still present with yesterday's git, and sometimes
it hangs without hpet=disable and sometimes it doesn't. (And never
with hpet=disable in the boot command line)

And when it hangs I can see only _one_ "Switched to high resolution mode
on CPU x" message before the hang point, and when it boots fine there
is always the two of them in sequence:

Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 1
Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0

And using vga=6 or vga=0x0364 makes a difference in the probability
of hanging.

I am just waiting -rc1 to be released to send an email with my
problem again, as I am unable to debug this myself.
I think this is ok from my part, right?


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