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Message-ID: <86802c440809041259i8982000yb0f68aeb2842caf0@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 4 Sep 2008 12:59:45 -0700
From:	"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
To:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: order functions in cpu/common.c and cpu/common_64.c

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>
>> hm, something in your patch series is early-crashing tip/master with
>> this config:
>>
>>  http://redhat.com/~mingo/misc/config-Thu_Sep__4_21_23_20_CEST_2008.bad
>>
>> the early-RIP is 0xffffffff804365b0:
>>
>> ffffffff8043656a <proc_bus_pci_release>:
>>
>> ffffffff804365b0:       be d0 00 00 00          mov    $0xd0,%esi
>> ffffffff804365b5:       e8 ad 28 e7 ff          callq  ffffffff802a8e67 <kmem_cache_alloc>
>>
>> fault 0xd, general protection fault. Given that it's an immediate
>> constant load, something really serious happened.
>
> ah, that's _another_ -tip testbox that broke at the same time, with a
> different kernel image. The RIP that corresponds to this box is
> 0xffffffff80420470:
>
> ffffffff8042045b <strnlen>:
> ffffffff8042045b:       55                      push   %rbp
>
> ffffffff80420470:       80 38 00                cmpb   $0x0,(%rax)
>
>
> which could be consistent with the printk messup ...
>
>> i've pushed out the broken tree into tip/tmp.master.broken (havent
>> updated tip/master with the breakage). I've removed the broken printk
>> in kernel/resource.c that Andrew found, see commit 06e44f6af324 - so
>> that's not the cause.
>
> i've double checked that 06e44f6af324 is applied. I'll bisect this.
>
or by
ca81beb4a340ee690803fcb1498f863d0e68843f

YH
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