linux-kernel - Re: [Bug #13941] x86 Geode issue

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Message-Id: <200908131654.45227.rjw@sisk.pl>
Date:	Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:54:45 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	q-funk@....fi
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Bug #13941] x86 Geode issue

On Thursday 13 August 2009, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> 2009/8/13 Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk@....fi>:
> > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Ingo Molnar<mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
> >> * Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk@....fi> wrote:
> >>> Yes, this bug is still valid.
> >>>
> >>> Ubuntu kernel team member Leann Ogasawara and I are slowly
> >>> bisecting our way through the changes that took place since 2.6.30
> >>> to find the commit that introduced this regression. Please stay
> >>> tuned.
> >>
> >> hm, the only outright Geode related commit was:
> >>
> >>  d6c585a: x86: geode: Mark mfgpt irq IRQF_TIMER to prevent resume failure
> >>
> >> the jpg at:
> >>
> >>  http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28892781/00002.jpg
> >>
> >> is very out of focus - but what i could decypher suggests a
> >> pagefault crash in the VFS code, in generic_delete_inode().
> 
> This one might be a bit better:
> 
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30267494/2.6.31-5.24.jpg
> 
> >> Which could be a VFS bug, or a filesystem bug, or some unrelated
> >> memory corruption hitting the inode data structure.
> >
> > It could indeed be many things.
> >
> > I've been trying to boot this into a larger framebuffer to be able to
> > fit more data into my snapshots, but it appears that vga=795 doesn't
> > work anymore. Have we reverted to Hex values again or is this just an
> > issue of some kernel module missing from initrd?
> 
> Never mind. Seems that vesafb was blacklisted. Works now. See the
> image above. :)

OK, so I guess the bug should be closed?

Rafael
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