Re: Config NO_BOOTMEM breaks my amd64 box

[Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>]

On 03/31/2010 02:14 PM, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:59 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>>
>> * James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 03/30/2010 09:49 PM, James Morris wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Please make NO_BOOTMEM default to n, at least for amd64, where I've found
>>>>> that it leads to all kinds of strange, undebuggable boot hangs and errors
>>>>> (with relatively current Fedora development userland).
>>>>
>>>> Have you tested it with the latest fixes that are now in Linus' tree (-rc3)?
>>>
>>> Yes, it was happening with -rc3.
>>
>> Could you please send the bootlog that Yinghai asked for, plus also one that
>> you get with NO_BOOTMEM turned off (for comparison)?
>>
>> Also, when did you first hit this bug? This code has been upstream for almost
>> a month, and it was in linux-next before that - so you should have hit this
>> much sooner. A rough timeframe would suffice. I suppose you were booting
>> upstream kernels during the merge window as well?
>>
>> We can flip the default around if there's no fix available based on the
>> bootlogs. (Plus the help text should definitely be improved.)
>>
> 
> Are you testing this btw with initramfs/initrds? I suspect lots of testing
> is being done by people on monolithic kernels, this is just a misc guess,
> considering I couldn't boot from when this landed until rc3 with this option
> on a basic 32-bit install on a dual-core 64-bit CPU, it suggested a
> hole of some sort
> in the test coverage.

so -rc3 is working your setup?

Yinghai