From: stevegt@TerraLuna.Org
To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: 09 Feb 1.2 hangs on partition check
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 12:29:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040211202906.GF3272@pathfinder> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Aqs9O-0006jB-00@wisbech.cl.cam.ac.uk>
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 11:03:26AM +0000, Keir Fraser wrote:
> > > I built xen and xenolinux from this morning's 1.2 pull and attempted to
> > > boot it on the same hardware where I've been running the 02 Feb 1.2
> > > build. It hangs in partition check. Compiler for both builds is gcc
> > > 3.0.4. BIOS settings etc. are the same -- this node reboots back into
> > > the 02 Feb build just fine.
> >
> > Any chance you could try with a different version of GCC? This sounds
> > possibly like an unexpected optimisation by the compiler (I saw a
> > problem with very similar symptoms a coupel of weeks ago that affected
> > mainly early GCC 3.x compilers).
> >
> > Perhaps I should keep a suite of GCC installations lying around for
> > local testing of this kind of bug. :-)
Has anyone started work on a regression test infrastructure? I'm
thinking either something local, or something distributed similar to the
cpan-testers pool...
> Okay, I've tried building Xen/Xenolinux with GCC 3.0.4. Although I
> didn't see your bug, I saw enough other weirdness (e.g., the
> start-of-day TSC skew calculations are broken) that I am convinced GCC
> 3.0.x is a bad choice!
>
> Please move to a more recent GCC (e.g. GCC 3.2.2 seems to work, and
> I've seen 3.3.x working in the past).
Will do.
Steve
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-11 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-11 6:52 09 Feb 1.2 hangs on partition check stevegt
2004-02-11 8:18 ` Keir Fraser
2004-02-11 11:03 ` Keir Fraser
2004-02-11 20:29 ` stevegt [this message]
2004-02-11 21:59 ` Ian Pratt
2004-02-12 3:54 ` GCC 3.0.4 incompatible (FAQ?) stevegt
2004-02-11 8:38 ` 09 Feb 1.2 hangs on partition check Steven Hand
2004-02-11 8:42 ` Steven Hand
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