linux-kernel - Re: Boot hangs after "Freeing initrd memory" with 2.6.31.11

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Date:	Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:08:52 +0200
From:	Ozan Çağlayan <ozan@...dus.org.tr>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
CC:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	hpa@...or.com, mingo@...e.hu, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
	jaswinder@...nel.org
Subject: Re: Boot hangs after "Freeing initrd memory" with 2.6.31.11

Ozan Çağlayan wrote On 14-01-2010 12:35:
> Yinghai Lu wrote On 14-01-2010 09:43:
>> On 01/13/2010 10:58 PM, Ozan Çağlayan wrote:
>>> Ozan Çağlayan wrote On 13-01-2010 20:51:
> 
>> can you just deselect CONFIG_X86_CPU_DEBUG in your .config ?
> 
> Yes that fixed the issue. I now reenabled it and reverted the following commit which is 1/2 commits
> modifying cpu_debug code between 2.6.30..2.6.31:
> 
> From 5095f59bda6793a7b8f0856096d6893fe98e0e51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>
> Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 23:27:17 +0530
> Subject: [PATCH] x86: cpu_debug: Remove model information to reduce encoding-decoding

Reverting this commit on top of 2.6.31.11 fixes the boot hangs with AMD Athlon XP processors.
I'll double check with other reporters in a day or two.
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