Re: kexec boot regression

Yinghai Lu
2009-12-15T12:32:55Z

Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have this big box that takes forever to boot, so I use kexec to boot
>>> into new kernels. Works fine, but some time past 2.6.32 it stopped
>>> working. Instead of wasting brain cycles on finding out why, I handed
>>> the problem to my trusty regression friend - git bisect.
>>>
>>> This is what it found (sorry Yinghai it's you again, you owe me a beer
>>> for hours of 2.6.32-git bisecting ;-)
>> sure.
>>
>>>
>>> 99935a7a59eaca0292c1a5880e10bae03f4a5e3d is the first bad commit
>>> commit 99935a7a59eaca0292c1a5880e10bae03f4a5e3d
>>> Author: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
>>> Date: Sun Oct 4 21:54:24 2009 -0700
>>>
>>> x86/PCI: read root resources from IOH on Intel
>>>
>>> For intel systems with multi IOH, we should read peer root resources
>>> directly from PCI config space, and don't trust _CRS.
>>>
>>>
>>> I could not revert this single commit, as a further commit made other
>>> changes. So I reverted 67f241f4 first and then 99935a7a. I confirmed
>>> that this kernel then works fine.
>>>
>> let see how BIOS mess it up again!
>
> Heh, I had a feeling this was coming :-)
>
>> please.
>
> Please find two logs attached - one from a boot with -git and the two
> patches reverted, and one from a boot with -git.

please enabled CONFIG_PCI_DEBUG and boot with debug in boot command line.

Thanks

Yinghai