From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755559Ab0EYPxM (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2010 11:53:12 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:50183 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754363Ab0EYPxK (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2010 11:53:10 -0400 Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 08:53:07 -0700 From: Greg KH To: =?utf-8?B?Uy7Dh2HEn2xhcg==?= Onur Cc: stable@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, suresh.b.siddha@intel.com Subject: Re: [stable] Boot failure with 2.6.27.46 on Xeon E5620 (Westmere EP) Message-ID: <20100525155307.GA7453@kroah.com> References: <000954C6-B4AC-4FD8-BA3B-C3B199C7607F@CS.Princeton.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <000954C6-B4AC-4FD8-BA3B-C3B199C7607F@CS.Princeton.EDU> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:10:28AM -0400, "S.Çağlar Onur" wrote: > Hi, > > We are observing boot failures [1] & [2] on some of our servers (Dell > r410) with 2.6.27-stable kernels. I found following commit in upstream > tree via a quick search (but I haven't tried it yet) so I don't know > whether I'm on the right track or not. > > Please let me know if anything else is needed... Has any .27 kernel worked on these machines? If so, can you narrow it down to the patch that caused the problem? thanks, greg k-h