From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "John Stoffel" <stoffel@lucent.com>
Cc: stoffel@lucent.com, ak@muc.de, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu,
bunk@fs.tum.de, cova@ferrara.linux.it, eric@cisu.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.2-rc2 Hangs on boot (was: [patch] Re: Kernels > 2.6.1-mm3 do not boot. - SOLVED)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 16:38:18 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040126163818.3ca49458.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16405.44635.564011.414832@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
"John Stoffel" <stoffel@lucent.com> wrote:
>
> ...
> It hangs at the following spot:
>
> Linux version 2.6.2-rc2 (john@jfsnew) (gcc version 3.3.3 20040110
> (prerelease) (Debian)) #2 SMP Mon Jan 26 09:17:00 EST 2004
> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000002fffe000 (usable)
> BIOS-e820: 000000002fffe000 - 0000000030000000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee10000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000ffe00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
> 767MB LOWMEM available.
> found SMP MP-table at 000fe710
> hm, page 000fe000 reserved twice.
> hm, page 000ff000 reserved twice.
> hm, page 000f0000 reserved twice.
> On node 0 totalpages: 196606
> DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
> Normal zone: 192510 pages, LIFO batch:16
> HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
>
>
> Should I start adding in printks, or would it make sense to go back
> through the various 2.6.2-bk# snapshots looking for where the problem
> hit?
Adding printk's is a pretty quick-n-easy way of finding out where it is
getting stuck. Just add
#define AAA() printk("%s:%d\n", __FILE__, __LINE__)
to kernel.h and sprinkle AAA()'s everywhere. It takes a few iterations to
drill right down to the bug.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-27 0:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-24 4:53 Kernels > 2.6.1-mm3 do not boot Eric
2004-01-24 6:11 ` Eric
2004-01-24 22:39 ` Eric
2004-01-25 1:02 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-01-25 4:03 ` Eric
2004-01-25 13:15 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-01-25 13:52 ` Fabio Coatti
2004-01-25 14:34 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-01-25 15:39 ` Fabio Coatti
2004-01-25 16:21 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-01-25 17:11 ` Kernels > 2.6.1-mm3 do not boot. - SOLVED Fabio Coatti
2004-01-25 17:30 ` [patch] " Adrian Bunk
2004-01-25 17:48 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-25 18:00 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-25 19:12 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-25 20:21 ` John Stoffel
2004-01-25 20:25 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-25 20:37 ` John Stoffel
2004-01-25 21:45 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-25 21:49 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-01-25 23:18 ` John Stoffel
2004-01-25 23:47 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-26 2:40 ` John Stoffel
2004-01-26 3:23 ` John Stoffel
2004-01-26 4:26 ` John Stoffel
2004-01-26 5:04 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-26 14:14 ` John Stoffel
2004-01-26 14:36 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-26 6:00 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-26 6:09 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-26 14:12 ` John Stoffel
2004-01-26 14:51 ` Fabio Coatti
2004-01-26 19:26 ` Eric
2004-01-26 19:56 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-27 5:43 ` Eric
2004-01-27 5:50 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-27 5:57 ` Eric
2004-01-27 6:37 ` Eric
2004-01-27 16:26 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-27 18:15 ` [patch] Re: Kernels > 2.6.1-mm3 do not boot. - REALLY SOLVED Andi Kleen
2004-01-27 19:31 ` Eric
2004-01-27 21:09 ` Fabio Coatti
2004-01-27 16:20 ` [patch] Re: Kernels > 2.6.1-mm3 do not boot. - SOLVED Andi Kleen
2004-01-27 20:54 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-27 22:30 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-27 23:16 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-27 23:29 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-27 23:45 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-27 0:18 ` 2.6.2-rc2 Hangs on boot (was: [patch] Re: Kernels > 2.6.1-mm3 do not boot. - SOLVED) John Stoffel
2004-01-27 0:38 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-01-27 9:40 ` [patch] Re: Kernels > 2.6.1-mm3 do not boot. - SOLVED Erik Hensema
2004-01-25 21:11 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-25 21:21 ` Fabio Coatti
2004-01-25 21:46 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-25 22:03 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-01-25 22:08 ` Fabio Coatti
2004-01-25 22:13 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-25 22:25 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-25 22:31 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-25 22:59 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-26 3:48 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-01-25 23:24 ` John Stoffel
2004-01-26 3:27 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-01-25 21:54 ` [patch] Re: Kernels > 2.6.1-mm3 do not boot. - II Andi Kleen
2004-01-25 21:48 ` [patch] Re: Kernels > 2.6.1-mm3 do not boot. - SOLVED Adrian Bunk
2004-01-25 17:49 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-25 16:28 ` Kernels > 2.6.1-mm3 do not boot Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-25 17:12 ` Fabio Coatti
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