Re: Boot failure since 3.3-rc?

[Yinghai Lu]

On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Sune Mølgaard <sune@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hiya,
>
> My old AMD Duron system (i386 with 2G RAM) has been unable to boot recent
> kernels, and I have bisected it down to:
>
> commit 321bf4ed5ff5f7c62ef59f33b7eec5b154391f0a
> Author: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Mon Jan 30 13:57:12 2012 -0800
>
>    drivers/base/memory.c: fix memory_dev_init() long delay
>
>    One system with 2048g ram, reported soft lockup on recent kernel.
>
> [snip the trace of the bug that this should fix]
>
>    Finally it takes about 55s to create 16400 memory entries.
>
>    Root cause: for x86_64, 2048g (with 2g hole at [2g,4g), and TOP2 will be
> 2050g), will have 16400 memory block.
>
>    find_memory_block/subsys_find_device_by_id will be expensive with that
> many entries.
>
>    Actually, we don't need to find that memory block for BOOT path.
>
>    Skip that finding make it get back to normal.
>
>    [   34.466696] cpu_dev_init done
>    [   35.290080] memory_dev_init done
>
>    Also solved the delay with topology_init when sections_per_block is not
> 1.
>
>    Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
>    Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx>
>    Cc: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>    Cc: Robin Holt <holt@xxxxxxx>
>    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> :040000 040000 95174f8192a2303d9e59e5f8523a58780b828e3e
> 2de57c6dc44872ac11766616f1cf05d6070b60de M      drivers
>
> Will be happy to test patches, but compilation is obviously slow on this
> machine, so some delay might occur.

So kernel with reverting that commit will work well?

can you post boot with "debug ignore_loglevel initcall_debug" with and
without reverting that patch?

Thanks

Yinghai
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