Re: Boot hangs after "Freeing initrd memory" with 2.6.31.11

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Saturday 16 January 2010, Ozan Çağlayan wrote:
> Ozan Çağlayan wrote:
> > Ozan Çağlayan wrote On 14-01-2010 15:08:
> > 
> > (CC'ing stable)
> > 
> >>> From 5095f59bda6793a7b8f0856096d6893fe98e0e51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >>> From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
> >>> Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 23:27:17 +0530
> >>> Subject: [PATCH] x86: cpu_debug: Remove model information to reduce encoding-decoding
> >> Reverting this commit on top of 2.6.31.11 fixes the boot hangs with AMD Athlon XP processors.
> >> I'll double check with other reporters in a day or two.
> > 
> > OK we've verified on 2 separate systems with Athlon XP that reverting the commit fixes the issue.
> > Here's proc/cpuinfo and relevant dmesg output for reference:
> > 
> > processor    : 0
> > vendor_id    : AuthenticAMD
> > cpu family    : 6
> > model        : 10
> > model name    : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+
> > stepping    : 0
> > cpu MHz        : 1920.500
> > cache size    : 512 KB
> > fdiv_bug    : no
> > hlt_bug        : no
> > f00f_bug    : no
> > coma_bug    : no
> > fpu        : yes
> > fpu_exception    : yes
> > cpuid level    : 1
> > wp        : yes
> > flags        : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov
> > pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow up
> > bogomips    : 3842.29
> > clflush size    : 32
> > power management: ts
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > [    0.461404] Freeing initrd memory: 5191k freed
> > [    0.467844] initcall populate_rootfs+0x0/0x62 returned 0 after 217975 usecs
> > [    0.467947] calling  i8259A_init_sysfs+0x0/0x1d @ 1
> > [    0.468093] initcall i8259A_init_sysfs+0x0/0x1d returned 0 after 41 usecs
> > [    0.468190] calling  sbf_init+0x0/0xda @ 1
> > [    0.468282] initcall sbf_init+0x0/0xda returned 0 after 0 usecs
> > [    0.468378] calling  i8237A_init_sysfs+0x0/0x1d @ 1
> > [    0.468484] initcall i8237A_init_sysfs+0x0/0x1d returned 0 after 12 usecs
> > [    0.468582] calling  add_rtc_cmos+0x0/0x94 @ 1
> > [    0.468679] initcall add_rtc_cmos+0x0/0x94 returned 0 after 4 usecs
> > [    0.468780] calling  cache_sysfs_init+0x0/0x55 @ 1
> > [    0.468940] initcall cache_sysfs_init+0x0/0x55 returned 0 after 64 usecs
> > [    0.469041] calling  cpu_debug_init+0x0/0x1f @ 1
> > [    0.469190] cpu0(1) debug files 5
> > [    0.469282] initcall cpu_debug_init+0x0/0x1f returned 0 after 143 usecs <-- That call wasn't returning at all
> > 
> > I think that the commit should be reverted or a fix should be released for linux-2.6 tree,
> > as well as .31 and .32 stable trees.
> 
> 
> Linux 2.6.31 is released on Sep 9th. So people having an Athlon XP processor + a kernel newer than 4 months
> which enables CONFIG_X86_CPU_DEBUG can't even boot into a linux kernel. I was *at least* expecting a comment from the relevant
> people but nope for 2 days.
> 
> It seems to be a serious regression which doesn't get caught. I'm also CC'ing Rafael, maybe he can inject this
> in one of his regression threads.

Well, the problem is I'm not listing regressions from 2.6.31 any more.

Also, I don't have hardware to reproduce the problem on.

Is there a bug entry for this in the kernel Bugzilla?

Rafael