Re: GPF, 39-rc5

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue May 03 2011 - 06:46:28 EST


On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 11:22:33AM -0400, Shawn Nock wrote:
>
> IBM Thinkpad x120e (AMD Fusion E-350).
>
> How to reproduce: There is a primary problem (I haven't been able to
> capture it yet), that causes the system to hang.

Right, this is the interesting part: how exactly do you trigger this?
Does it happen with 2.6.38? Can you try enabling netconsole and see
whether you catch anything (Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt)?
BIOS update?

> The PC speaker emits a tone and I cannot return to a text console. The
> logs show nothing for this problem... however, rebooting after this
> panic seems to reliably (4/5) cause the following GPF:

This could be very well some garbled state that's being restored causing
the fxrstor #GP.

Thanks.

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