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From: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 4.9-rc1 boot regression, ambiguous bisect result
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 21:20:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161021202022.GI27807@codeblueprint.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161021154129.GH27807@codeblueprint.co.uk>

On Fri, 21 Oct, at 04:41:29PM, Matt Fleming wrote:
> 
> FYI, I've been able to reproduce some crash when using your EFI memory
> map layout under Qemu and forcing the ESRT driver to reserve the space.
 
Nope, that was a bug in my hack. I can't get Qemu to crash while using
your memory map layout.

Any chance you can insert "while(1)" loops into the EFI boot paths for
a kernel that is known to reboot or trigger a triple fault in kernels
that hang, so that we can narrow in on the issue. See,

  http://www.codeblueprint.co.uk/2015/04/early-x86-linux-boot-debug-tricks.html

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-21 20:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-20  4:04 4.9-rc1 boot regression, ambiguous bisect result Dan Williams
2016-10-20  6:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-10-20 12:29 ` Matt Fleming
2016-10-20 15:22   ` Dan Williams
2016-10-20 19:37     ` Dan Williams
2016-10-21  7:00       ` Ingo Molnar
2016-10-21 18:20         ` Dan Williams
2016-10-21 15:41       ` Matt Fleming
2016-10-21 20:20         ` Matt Fleming [this message]
2016-10-21 23:20           ` Dan Williams
2016-10-30 12:08             ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2016-10-30 15:59               ` Dan Williams
2016-10-31  9:38                 ` Matt Fleming
2016-11-03  0:41                 ` Neri, Ricardo
2016-11-03  5:18                   ` Dan Williams

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