Re: BUG 2.6.7 hangs on boot (rx2600)

Jesse Barnes
2004-07-07T23:56:34Z

On Tuesday, July 6, 2004 4:43 pm, David Mosberger wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 09:17:18 -0700, Jesse Barnes
> >>>>> <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> said:
>
> Jesse> On Tuesday, June 29, 2004 4:18 pm, David Mosberger wrote:
> >> >>>>> On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 11:19:34 -0700, "Chen, Kenneth W"
> >> >>>>> <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> said:
>
> Ken> Looks like there are more places where kernel does "virt ->
> Ken> phys -> virt". And conversion from phys to virt is setting 3
> Ken> msb to 1.
>
> >> Your fixes work fine on the machines I have tried so far (variety of
> >> Itanium 2 boxen and a Big Sur Merced box).
> >>
> >> Jesse, do you know if unapplying the "move current to region 5" patch
> >> fixes your boot-problem? For convenience, I attached the (original)
> >> patch below.
>
> Jesse> Yes, reverting that patch does fix the hang I'm seeing.
>
> A quick grep shows that MINSTATE_END_SAVE_MIN_PHYS would also convert
> the region 5 "current" into a region 7 address. An MCA at the right
> time might cause problems, I think.

If you hack your elilo to load the kernel higher in memory do you see the same
thing?

Jesse