linux-kernel - Re: [stable] Boot failure with 2.6.27.46 on Xeon E5620 (Westmere EP)

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Message-ID: <20100525205123.GA14993@kroah.com>
Date:	Tue, 25 May 2010 13:51:23 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	S.Çağlar Onur <caglar@...Princeton.EDU>
Cc:	stable@...nel.org, hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	suresh.b.siddha@...el.com
Subject: Re: [stable] Boot failure with 2.6.27.46 on Xeon E5620 (Westmere
 EP)

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 04:32:16PM -0400, "S.Çağlar Onur" wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On May 25, 2010, at 11:53 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:10:28AM -0400, "S.Çağlar Onur" wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> We are observing boot failures [1] & [2] on some of our servers (Dell
> >> r410) with 2.6.27-stable kernels. I found following commit in upstream
> >> tree via a quick search (but I haven't tried it yet) so I don't know
> >> whether I'm on the right track or not. 
> >> 
> >> Please let me know if anything else is needed...
> > 
> > Has any .27 kernel worked on these machines?  If so, can you narrow it
> > down to the patch that caused the problem?
> 
> I don't think any .27 kernel worked on those machines before. But in
> any case I'll try (I don't have a physical access to those machines as
> they are located in China) an older .27 release to see.

Ok, so it isn't a regression, which is what I want to know.

New hardware like this, probably will only work on newer kernel
versions, so please use those instead :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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