Re: Bisected regression (Was Re: current -git fails to boot on nehalem-ex)

Yinghai Lu
2009-12-10T19:20:31Z

Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10 2009, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>>> [ 0.000000] Kernel panic - not syncing: Overlapping early reservations 12-f011 MP-table mpc to 0-fff BIOS data page
>>>> mptable mpc is [12 - f011]
>>>>
>>>> what a BIOS !
>>>>
>>>> can you check if it works with 2.6.32 + "acpi=off"?
>> I'll try that.
>
> Yes, 2.6.32 boots fine with acpi=off passed.
>
>>> please check if this one could workaround it.
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
>>> index d17d482..f60acec 100644
>>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
>>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
>>> @@ -732,7 +732,7 @@ struct early_res {
>>> char overlap_ok;
>>> };
>>> static struct early_res early_res[MAX_EARLY_RES] __initdata = {
>>> - { 0, PAGE_SIZE, "BIOS data page" }, /* BIOS data page */
>>> + { 0, PAGE_SIZE, "BIOS data page", 1 }, /* BIOS data page */
>>> {}
>>> };
>> And then this. Results in 10-15min.
>
> Doesn't work, it just complains about a different overlap:
>
> [ 0.000000] Kernel panic - not syncing: Overlapping early
> reservations 12-f011 MP-table mpc to 6000-7fff TRAMPOLINE
> [ 0.000000]
> [ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.32 #51
> [ 0.000000] Call Trace:
> [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff813c709b>] panic+0xa0/0x16a
> [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8167d280>] ?
> reserve_early_overlap_ok+0x2e/0x39
> [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8167d24a>] ?
> drop_overlaps_that_are_ok+0x117/0x11f
> [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8167d133>] drop_overlaps_that_are_ok+0x0/0x11f
> [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8167d2c6>] reserve_early+0x3b/0x3d
> [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff81683248>] smp_scan_config+0xe7/0x10e
> [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff816832a9>] default_find_smp_config+0x3a/0x60
> [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8167b0be>] setup_arch+0x6ae/0xa88
> [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff816789ff>] start_kernel+0x82/0x412
> [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff81678289>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x99/0xb9
> [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff81678389>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xe0/0xf2
>
>

that is funny. we may need to use find early for our TRAMPOLINE...?

otherwise your mptable is corrupted....

YH