Re: [REGRESSION] [BISECT] ACPI+Inspiron 1545 = crash at xrstor_state()

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 04:56:06AM -0500, Jody Bruchon wrote:
>  I previously reported an early boot crash on an Inspiron 1545 laptop;
> see previous posts for more details.  I used the parameters "debug
> vga=6 earlyprintk=vga" to catch these errors since they happen so
> early in boot that the normal console has not yet initialized.
> 
> A picture of the crash dump from 2.6.37-rc2 is available here (2.6.36
> crash is identical except for the reported kernel version):
> http://c02ware.com/bugs/dump_c7ff0d9c92435e836e13aaa8d0e56d4000424bcc.jpg
> 
> I have experienced similar problems on a small number of other systems
> also.  After confirming that the problem was introduced going from
> 2.6.35 to 2.6.36, I have successfully bisected the kernel, and
> narrowed down and tested to verify the commit which introduced the
> problem.  Reverting this commit fixes 2.6.36 but 2.6.37-rc2 has the
> exact same crash even if I revert it.  I don't know what to do from
> here, but someone with more knowledge can surely guide me.  I will
> only have the unit to test with for another day or two.  I have
> attached a suitable .config for reference as well.  The commit info is
> below.

I don't think this patch is at fault. Your oops photo above shows that
the machine oopses at the first xrstor call in xstate_enable_boot_cpu():

 1c3:   0f 06                   clts
 1c5:   83 c8 ff                or     $0xffffffff,%eax
 1c8:   89 c2                   mov    %eax,%edx
 1ca:   0f ae 2f                xrstor (%edi)			<---------
 1cd:   8b 3d 54 00 00 00       mov    0x54,%edi
 1d3:   0f ae 27                xsave  (%edi)

Adding more people to Cc.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.