Re: x86 boot issues in -next

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Fri Mar 01 2024 - 16:48:53 EST


On 3/1/24 13:29, Mark Brown wrote:
> For the past few days -next has been failing to boot an x86_64 defconfig
> on the x86 machine Linaro has available in their lab. DMI says it's a
> "Dell Inc. PowerEdge R200/0TY019, BIOS 1.4.3 05/15/2009" and the CPU is
> described as "Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3220 @ 2.40GHz (family: 0x6, model:
> 0xf, stepping: 0xb)", it's running happily with mainline and
> pending-fixes.

This wouldn't explain the bisect results, but there's been a crash fixed
in here:

> https://lore.kernel.org/all/170863445442.1479840.1818801787239831650.stgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

that looks pretty similar to your signature.

Could you give Dan's patch a shot?