Re: linux-next: Tree for Sept 6 (does not boot on AMD64)

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Thursday, September 06, 2012, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Changes since 20120905:
> >>
> >> New tree: arm64
> >>
> >> The powerpc tree gained a build failure for which I reverted 3 commits.
> >>
> >> The net-next tree lost its build failure.
> >>
> >> The trivial tree gained a conflict against the powerpc tree.
> >>
> >> The spi-mb tree gained a build failure so I used the version from
> >> next-20120905.
> >>
> >> The driver-core tree gained a build failure (form an interaction with the
> >> workqueues tree) for which I applied a merge fix patch.
> >>
> >> The tty tree gained a build failure for which I applied a patch.
> >>
> >> The staging tree lost its build failure.
> >>
> >> The arm-soc tree gained a conflict against the usb tree.
> >>
> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Unfortunately, today's linux-next does not boot here on Ubuntu/precise AMD64.
> > My yesterday's next-20120905 is fine.
> >
> > I throw out all my additional patches an rebuild again as "-2", but
> > this linux-image does not boot.
> > It's in very early stage.
> > I removed "quiet" etc. from kernel-command-line, but this reveals not much more.
> >
> > From the attached kernel-config.diff:
> > Dunno why the 2nd is disabled now and try to turn off the 1st one in a
> > "-3" build.
> >
> > +CONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ_CPB=y
> > -CONFIG_USB_LIBUSUAL=y
> >
> 
> [ CC Rafael (cpufreq sub-maintainer) ]

Well, this is related to the AMD cpufreq patchset I've just added to
linux-next.  I'll drop it for now until the issue is resolved.

> I hacked to turn off CONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ_CPB, but this is not the
> root cause.
> Not sure why this setting is default YES, Rafael?
> 
> To switch from upstart to systemd does not help.

Andre, care to have a look at this?

Rafael