Re: PROBLEM: cannot get stable system since 2.6.28 kernel (amd64)

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Philippe Grenard wrote:
> On Friday 20 February 2009 22:58:30 Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> * Philippe Grenard <philippe.grenard@laposte.net> wrote:
>>> dc1e35c6e95e8923cf1d3510438b63c600fee1e2 is first bad commit
>>> commit dc1e35c6e95e8923cf1d3510438b63c600fee1e2
>>> Author: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
>>> Date:   Tue Jul 29 10:29:19 2008 -0700
>>>
>>>     x86, xsave: enable xsave/xrstor on cpus with xsave support
>> [...]
>>
>>> A bit of googling gave me this :
>>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/19/161
>>> which exactly corresponds to my problem with 2.6.28 !
>>>
>>> A "solution" proposed was to try to check the bios setting
>>> "cpuid value limit" and disable it if enabled. This did help
>>> me to boot 2.6.28 or previously failing kernel compiled during
>>> git-bisect, but gave me the "random freeze" any way....
>> Note that the workaround for that BIOS bug is already in the
>> latest upstream kernel, i.e. in 2.6.29-rc5.
>>
>> Could you please try -rc5, whether it works out of box?
>>
>> If you still see freezes, could you try the "nofxsr" boot
>> option? That will turn off the new FPU code both in the hw and
>> in the kernel.
>>
>> 	Ingo
> 
> Hello Ingo, thanks for your reply,
> 
> I've tried to boot 2.6.29-rc5 with both "Max CPUID Value" Enabled and 
> Disabled, and tried for both case the "nofxsr" option without better result...
> 
> As I said before, I use the default dsdt table : can this be a problem too ?

OK, this is a completely different problem then.  Any way you could do a
"git bisect" to track down the exact place where this broke?

	-hpa

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