From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934181Ab0EYUvk (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2010 16:51:40 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:45664 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759057Ab0EYUvi (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2010 16:51:38 -0400 Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 13:51:23 -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: <20100525205123.GA14993@kroah.com> References: <000954C6-B4AC-4FD8-BA3B-C3B199C7607F@CS.Princeton.EDU> <20100525155307.GA7453@kroah.com> <620C3556-2708-4704-90F3-37DDEF1A404E@CS.Princeton.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <620C3556-2708-4704-90F3-37DDEF1A404E@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 04:32:16PM -0400, "S.Çağlar Onur" wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On May 25, 2010, at 11:53 AM, Greg KH wrote: > > > 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? > > I don't think any .27 kernel worked on those machines before. But in > any case I'll try (I don't have a physical access to those machines as > they are located in China) an older .27 release to see. Ok, so it isn't a regression, which is what I want to know. New hardware like this, probably will only work on newer kernel versions, so please use those instead :) thanks, greg k-h