Re: 2.6.11.7 kernel panic on boot on AMD64

Andi Kleen
2005-04-29T14:30:39Z

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 09:47:21AM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 00:38:24 +0800
> Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 4/28/05, Randy.Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 11:05:40 +0200
> > > Ruben Puettmann <ruben@puettmann.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 03:27:04PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> > > > Looks like this code in init/main.c:
> > > > >
> > > > > if (late_time_init)
> > > > > late_time_init();
> > > > >
> > > > > sees a garbage value in late_time_init (garbage being
> > > > > %eax == 0x00307974.743d656c, which is "le=tty0\n",
> > > > > as in "console=tty0").
> > > > >
> > > > > How long is your kernel boot/command line?
> > > > > Please post it.
> > > >
> > > > It was boot over pxe here is the append line from the
> > > > pxelinux.cfg/default
> > > >
> > > > APPEND vga=normal rw load_ramdisk=0 root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.112.1:/store/rescue/sarge-amd64,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timo=12,retrans=3,mountvers=3,nfsvers=3
> > >
> > > Hm, no "console=tty...." at all. That didn't help (me) much.
> >
> > Could that boot loader pxe append console=tty implicitly?
>
> It could... I don't know anything about pxe boot.
>
>
> > >From the vmlinux Ruben gave me,
> > ffffffff807980d8 A __bss_start
> > ffffffff807980d8 A _edata
> > ffffffff80798100 B boot_cpu_stack
> > ffffffff8079c100 B boot_exception_stacks
> > ffffffff807a1100 B system_state
> > ffffffff807a1120 B saved_command_line
> > ffffffff807a1220 B late_time_init
> > ffffffff807a1228 b execute_command
> > ffffffff807a1230 b panic_later
> > ffffffff807a1238 b panic_param
> > ...
> >
> > It seems possible to luckily skip the garbage. Comment out the two
> > lines and see if it works.
> >
> > /* if (late_time_init)
> > late_time_init(); */
>
> Yes, that would help verify that the command line is the problem.
> I also recall Andi having a few problems with large command lines
> on x86-64... so it still smells like that to me. (ak added to cc:)

late_time_init is not in my tree. Someone else must have submitted it.
iirc it was a workaround for some race in the NMI watchdog setup, but
that has since then be properly fixed.

I would recommend to just drop the patch.

-Andi