Re: [PATCH 00/16] [GIT PULL] tracing: fixes/cleanups, nostop-machine, update stack tracer

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Jan 02 2012 - 08:51:07 EST



* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Just to give you an impression of how a failure looks like, the
> serial console just stops printing mid-line:
>
> [ 53.212942] calling vt1211_init+0x0/0x9b @ 1
> [ 53.212971] initcall vt1211_init+0x0/0x9b returned -19 after 23 usecs
> [ 53.212975] calling sm_vt8231_init+0x0/0x1b @ 1
> Booting 'Fedora'
>
> and the next message is GRUB's 'Booting ...' line.

here's another one:

[ 53.224579] calling sm_via686a_init+0x0/0x1b @ 1
[ 53.224622] bus: 'pci': add driver via686a
Booting 'Fedora

This occured after a series of 50 successful bootups ...

Unfortunately this means that the 'baseline' numbers are
probably not reliable.

Thanks,

Ingo
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