Re: early exception error

[david]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:

> > this seems to have solved the problem
>
> can you post boot log and lspci -vvxxx ?

I will do this tomorrow

> > I do have another of these systems if there is any desire to do any more
> > troubleshooting (it would be really nice if things died with a better error
> > message for example)
>
> good,
> 0. setup serial cable between your two system. use minicom in your
> first system to capture serial message from second system
> 1. apply attached patch
> 2. we need full boot log of your second system. please boot with "
> debug console=uart8250,io,0x3f8,115200n8 pci=earlydump"

it will take me a little bit of time to do this. the one I've been working 
with is now my desktop at work, now that the holidays are over I need to 
work with it instead of rebooting it, the other boxes are in a stack at 
home. getting at them is easy compared to figuring out where to set them 
up. I should have something setup within a couple of days.

David LangFrom: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [PATCH] mm: print out info about adding/removing active region

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>

---
 mm/page_alloc.c |    5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3626,8 +3626,7 @@ void __init add_active_range(unsigned in
 {
 	int i;
 
-	mminit_dprintk(MMINIT_TRACE, "memory_register",
-			"Entering add_active_range(%d, %#lx, %#lx) "
+	printk(KERN_DEBUG "Adding active range (%d, %#lx, %#lx) "
 			"%d entries of %d used\n",
 			nid, start_pfn, end_pfn,
 			nr_nodemap_entries, MAX_ACTIVE_REGIONS);
@@ -3689,7 +3688,7 @@ void __init remove_active_range(unsigned
 	int i, j;
 	int removed = 0;
 
-	printk(KERN_DEBUG "remove_active_range (%d, %lu, %lu)\n",
+	printk(KERN_DEBUG "Removing active range (%d, %#lx, %#lx)\n",
 			  nid, start_pfn, end_pfn);
 
 	/* Find the old active region end and shrink */