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From: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
To: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	kexec@lists.infradead.org, Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Subject: Re: kdump broken on Altix 350
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:21:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48C82C4F.1050002@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080910134805.488b43f9@kepler.site>

Bernhard Walle wrote:
> * "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> [2008-08-29]: 
> 
>>> your commit
>>>
>>>     commit 10617bbe84628eb18ab5f723d3ba35005adde143
>>>     Author: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
>>>     Date:   Tue Aug 12 10:34:20 2008 -0700
>>>
>>>     [IA64] Ensure cpu0 can access per-cpu variables in early boot
>>> code
>>>
>>> broke kdump on our Altix 350. I get following early crash in kdump
>>> kernel
>> Sorry about that.  I'll try to reproduce it here.
> 
> I had some discussion about that with Jay Lan that he could not
> reproduce that on his machine. We thought it was different config, but
> now I can verify that the problem is reproducible here with the default
> configuration (plus CONFIG_SATA_VITESSE).

Hi Bernhard and Tony,

I started seeing this problem, and it affected A4700 in addition to
A350.

It was not clear the system hang was related to this problem. I saw a
kdump kernel hang at cpu_init() at an A350, and a hang in find_memory
on handling pernode space thing at an A4700. No error records and no
backtrace, so i did not relate my problem to this one at first.

Out of curiosity, i backed out Tony's patch mentioned from 2.6.27-rc5
and the kdump kernel hangs were gone on both systems.

Also, i had a kdump kernel MCA problem that was caused by kexec
underallocating kernel memory for the kdump kernel. The  problem
does not happen again after i backed out the patch.

Regards,
jay

> 
> 
> Bernhard
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-10 20:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-29 16:03 kdump broken on Altix 350 Bernhard Walle
2008-08-29 16:05 ` Bernhard Walle
2008-08-29 20:42   ` Luck, Tony
2008-08-29 20:48     ` Bernhard Walle
2008-09-10 11:48     ` Bernhard Walle
2008-09-10 20:21       ` Jay Lan [this message]
2008-09-27  1:00         ` Jay Lan
2008-09-29 20:55           ` Luck, Tony
2008-09-10 12:19 ` Bernhard Walle
2008-09-29 23:42 ` Luck, Tony
2008-09-30  0:30   ` Jay Lan
2008-10-02  5:13   ` Simon Horman
2008-10-02 17:04     ` Jay Lan

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