From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756167AbZKWCm2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:42:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754065AbZKWCm2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:42:28 -0500 Received: from bld-mail18.adl2.internode.on.net ([150.101.137.103]:45737 "EHLO mail.internode.on.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756085AbZKWCm1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:42:27 -0500 Message-ID: <4B09F685.2080201@internode.on.net> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:12:13 +1030 From: indexer User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Gleixner CC: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , LKML , Feng Tang , bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Bug 14658] Regression in efi.c References: <200911212017.nALKHLSC029634@demeter.kernel.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Sat, 21 Nov 2009, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote: > > Switched to email. Please reply by mail (reply-to-all) and not in the > bugzilla. > > >> --- Comment #1 from Rafael J. Wysocki 2009-11-21 20:17:21 --- >> Caused by: >> >> commit 7bd867dfb4e0357e06a3211ab2bd0e714110def3 >> > > That's completely bogus. That commit is not in 2.6.31. It was merged in the > 2.6.32 merge window. > > From the original bug report: > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125846988820120&w=4 > > >> I would like to report a possible regression in efi.c with kernels >> 2.6.31 , 2.6.32-rc5 and 2.6.32.rc7. >> >> Attempting to boot x86_64 with elilo succeeds using 2.6.30 . Using the >> same config cannot boot with any of the 3 afore mentioned kernels. >> > > So the problem exists with 2.6.31 already which excludes the above > commit. > > The above commit indeed caused problems on 64bit efi systems in > 2.6.32-rc. The fix was merged between 32-rc5 and 32-rc6. > > The bisect was done with: > > git bisect start > # good: [59a3759d0fe8d969888c741bb33f4946e4d3750d] Linux 2.6.30-rc7 > git bisect good 59a3759d0fe8d969888c741bb33f4946e4d3750d > # bad: [156171c71a0dc4bce12b4408bb1591f8fe32dc1a] Linux 2.6.32-rc7 > > while the bisect should have be done with > > good 2.6.30 > bad 2.6.31 > > William, could you please go through the bisect pain again? > > Thanks, > > tglx > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > Thomas I had already done a similar bisect to this in private conversation to Huang Ying, and is what prompted me to expand my bisect out. I redid it regardless and will send you the information. commit 74fca6a42863ffacaf7ba6f1936a9f228950f657 Author: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed Sep 9 15:13:59 2009 -0700 Linux 2.6.31 Makefile | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) git bisect start # good: [07a2039b8eb0af4ff464efd3dfd95de5c02648c6] Linux 2.6.30 git bisect good 07a2039b8eb0af4ff464efd3dfd95de5c02648c6 # bad: [74fca6a42863ffacaf7ba6f1936a9f228950f657] Linux 2.6.31 git bisect bad 74fca6a42863ffacaf7ba6f1936a9f228950f657 # good: [925d74ae717c9a12d3618eb4b36b9fb632e2cef3] V4L/DVB (11736): videobuf: modify return value of VIDIOC_REQBUFS ioctl git bisect good 925d74ae717c9a12d3618eb4b36b9fb632e2cef3 # good: [a380137900fca5c79e6daa9500bdb6ea5649188e] ixgbe: Fix device capabilities of 82599 single speed fiber NICs. git bisect good a380137900fca5c79e6daa9500bdb6ea5649188e # good: [b54c3835469c9548d470e7788cb22a2fd7e21133] Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6 git bisect good b54c3835469c9548d470e7788cb22a2fd7e21133 # good: [7b2aa037e878c939676675969983284a02958ae3] Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6 git bisect good 7b2aa037e878c939676675969983284a02958ae3 # good: [8486a0f95c844b27ecc855cfec89b7e34f831cad] Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 git bisect good 8486a0f95c844b27ecc855cfec89b7e34f831cad # good: [f415c413f458837bd0c27086b79aca889f9435e4] Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 git bisect good f415c413f458837bd0c27086b79aca889f9435e4 # good: [37d0892c5a94e208cf863e3b7bac014edee4346d] autofs4 - fix missed case when changing to use struct path git bisect good 37d0892c5a94e208cf863e3b7bac014edee4346d # good: [0edfa2b1b5a5e1475e76dd3c792447687d966de4] Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs git bisect good 0edfa2b1b5a5e1475e76dd3c792447687d966de4 # good: [5136a6c0fd5b26bbf39ad761cf7a4fc563ad83a3] Merge git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/mtd-2.6.31 git bisect good 5136a6c0fd5b26bbf39ad761cf7a4fc563ad83a3 # good: [f69fb9c39868463f6b0b8306824341bd5610250b] Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel git bisect good f69fb9c39868463f6b0b8306824341bd5610250b # good: [755ae761c5519929a97567d61a379b87352c337c] Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6 git bisect good 755ae761c5519929a97567d61a379b87352c337c # good: [7c8460db30dfd085ef3837c8fb02ecf2e718b983] drm/i915: fix mask bits setting git bisect good 7c8460db30dfd085ef3837c8fb02ecf2e718b983 # good: [7135a71b19be1faf48b7148d77844d03bc0717d6] aoe: allocate unused request_queue for sysfs git bisect good 7135a71b19be1faf48b7148d77844d03bc0717d6 Sincerely William PS - The fact remains i still cant efi boot in 2.6.32-rc7, so this bug still exists, and I will keep doing what i can to help track this down.