linux-kernel - Re: x86 boot issues in -next

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Message-ID: <71f9b0b7-190f-453c-b55b-c842db4a825d@intel.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2024 13:48:41 -0800
From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
 Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@...ux.intel.com>,
 Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
 Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc: x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: x86 boot issues in -next

On 3/1/24 13:29, Mark Brown wrote:
> For the past few days -next has been failing to boot an x86_64 defconfig
> on the x86 machine Linaro has available in their lab.  DMI says it's a
> "Dell Inc. PowerEdge R200/0TY019, BIOS 1.4.3 05/15/2009" and the CPU is
> described as "Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3220  @ 2.40GHz (family: 0x6, model:
> 0xf, stepping: 0xb)", it's running happily with mainline and
> pending-fixes.

This wouldn't explain the bisect results, but there's been a crash fixed
in here:

> https://lore.kernel.org/all/170863445442.1479840.1818801787239831650.stgit@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com/

that looks pretty similar to your signature.

Could you give Dan's patch a shot?