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Message-ID: <20101118215429.GA29243@kroah.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:54:29 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To: S.Çağlar Onur <caglar@...Princeton.EDU>
Cc: Youquan Song <youquan.song@...ux.intel.com>,
Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
"stable@...nel.org" <stable@...nel.org>,
"hpa@...or.com" <hpa@...or.com>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"Song, Youquan" <youquan.song@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [stable] Boot failure with 2.6.27.46 on Xeon E5620 (Westmere
EP)
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 04:24:40PM -0500, "S.Çağlar Onur" wrote:
> Hi Youquan & Greg,
>
>
> On May 26, 2010, at 9:23 AM, Youquan Song wrote:
>
> >>> I can't think of any known issues in 2.6.27 that can lead to this kind
> >>> of boot failure on WSM-EP. Caglar, It will be nice if you can do git
> >>> bisect between working and non-working kernels.
> >>
> >> Sure, I'll try to boot those with plain 2.6.27 to see but please note that it's going to be little time consuming. For each one I have to create a custom boot image for them to download and test (a.k.a. don't expect to hear from me soon :))
> >
> > Hi Caglar,
> >
> > What's the microcode version? Get by "dmesg | grep microcode" if you
> > success boot other version of kernel.
> > Can you try to disable C-state(C6) in BIOS before your boot 2.6.27?
>
> First of all I'm really sorry that it took really long time to reply this mail as I was waiting Dell to send a loaner machine to us. This morning I've got the hardware and following patch solved the boot problem that I was observing, Greg could you consider adding that to 2.6.27-stable tree?
>
> commit a0bf284bfedd6dc95bbee7ebf5ccf3b5f753a008
No problem, now queued up.
thanks,
greg k-h
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