Re: x86 boot issues in -next

From: Dan Williams
Date: Fri Mar 01 2024 - 17:20:57 EST


[ add Greg ]

Dave Hansen wrote:
> 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?
>

Hey Greg, this indeed looks like something that will be fixed when you
update driver-core-next.

http://lore.kernel.org/r/2024022342-unbroken-september-e58d@gregkh