linux-kernel - Re: Linux 4.10-rc8

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Date:   Mon, 13 Feb 2017 16:37:07 +0100
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 4.10-rc8

On Sun 2017-02-12 14:40:04, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> wrote:
> >
> > I see some crazy stuff with v4.10-rc7 (and older).
> >
> > Like machine not booting from cold boot, needing ctrl-alt-del at boot,
> > otherwise it changs during PCI quirks.
> 
> I assume from your description that it's not repeatable enough to
> bisect? But if you can bisect it even partially to narrow things down
> a bit, that would be great.

If it hangs, it seems to hang at one place (probably running pci
quirks). So I guess next step is "enough printks to determine where it
hangs...)

> That said, one of the reverts in rc8 was a ioapic change that caused a
> reported boot hang (just one person). Did you check rc8 already?

I did now, and it is still broken.

Thanks,								Pavel
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