linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.10 00/26] 3.10.31-stable review

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Date:	Thu, 20 Feb 2014 06:39:28 -0700
From:	Shuah Khan <shuah.kh@...sung.com>
To:	Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@...wei.com>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org,
	"shuahkhan@...il.com" <shuahkhan@...il.com>,
	Shuah Khan <shuah.kh@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.10 00/26] 3.10.31-stable review

On 02/20/2014 12:30 AM, Xishi Qiu wrote:
> On 2014/2/20 8:29, Shuah Khan wrote:
>
>> On 02/18/2014 03:46 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.10.31 release.
>>> There are 26 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
>>> to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
>>> let me know.
>>>
>>> Responses should be made by Thu Feb 20 22:45:20 UTC 2014.
>>> Anything received after that time might be too late.
>>>
>>> The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
>>>      kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/stable-review/patch-3.10.31-rc1.gz
>>> and the diffstat can be found below.
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>>
>>> greg k-h
>>>
>>
>> Compile and boot tests passed on AMD system. Boot failed on Intel systems. I think the following changes are the suspect, so far by process of elimination - these two aren't in 3.12 and 3.13
>>
>> #    modified:   mm/hugetlb.c
>> #    modified:   mm/memory-failure.c
>>
>> However, my strong suspect is the following:
>>
>> Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@...wei.com>
>>      mm: fix process accidentally killed by mce because of huge page migration
>>
>> I don't see how this could cause problems, none the less, I will test without these changes and let you know.
>>
>>
>> Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
>>      mm/memory-failure.c: fix memory leak in successful soft offlining
>>
>> I will test without these changes and let you know.
>>
>> -- Shuah
>>
>
> Hi Shuah
>
> I tested on my system, it boot successfully.
>
> hardware: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2420 0 @ 1.90GHz
> OS: v3.10.30 + the two patches
>
> Thanks,
> Xishi Qiu

Xishi,

I tested without your patch and still see the issue. My wild guess 
wasn't a good one :) I am starting git bisect now.

-- Shuah


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Shuah Khan
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