Re: 2.6.10-mm1 [failure on AMD64]

[Jesse Barnes]

On Monday, January 3, 2005 3:29 pm, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On a dual-Opteron w/ NUMA I had to apply the Jesse's patch to compile the
> kernel, but it does not boot.  It only prints this to the serial console:
>
> Bootdata ok (command line is root=/dev/sdb3 vga=792 earlyprintk=ttyS0,57600
> console=ttyS0,57600 console=tty0)
> Linux version 2.6.10-mm1 (rafael@chimera) (gcc version 3.3.4 (pre 3.3.5
> 20040809)) #1 SMP Mon Jan 3 23:09:30 CET 2005
> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
>  BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
>  BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fff0000 (usable)
>  BIOS-e820: 000000003fff0000 - 000000003ffff000 (ACPI data)
>  BIOS-e820: 000000003ffff000 - 0000000040000000 (ACPI NVS)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000ff7c0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
> kernel direct mapping tables upto ffff810100000000 @ 8000-c000
> Scanning NUMA topology in Northbridge 24
> Number of nodes 2 (10010)
> Node 0 already present. Skipping
> Node 1 already present. Skipping
> No NUMA configuration found
> Faking a node at 0000000000000000-000000003fff0000
> Bootmem setup node 0 0000000000000000-000000003fff0000
> No mptable found.
> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
> Processor #0 15:5 APIC version 16
> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
> Processor #1 15:5 APIC version 16
> ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
> IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 17, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
> ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x03] address[0xfc9fe000] gsi_base[24])
> IOAPIC[1]: apic_id 3, version 17, address 0xfc9fe000, GSI 24-27
> ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x04] address[0xfc9ff000] gsi_base[28])
> IOAPIC[2]: apic_id 4, version 17, address 0xfc9ff000, GSI 28-31
> ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
> Setting APIC routing to flat
> Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
> Checking aperture...
> CPU 0: aperture @ f0000000 size 128 MB
> CPU 1: aperture @ f0000000 size 128 MB
>
> and then it goes into an infinite loop that writes some garbage to the
> framebuffer (yellow lines on top of the screen).
>
> On a UP AMD64 it boots, but then it does not work appropriately (eg. at KDE
> startup the box hangs for a while and I get the message like "The process
> for the file protocol has terminated unexpectedly" and desktop icons are
> not displayed, and I get a "cpu overload" message from arts etc.).
>
> Please let me know if you need more information.

Try wli's patch, subject "[bootfix] pass used_node_mask by reference in 
2.6.10-mm1".

Jesse
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