query for idea about a kexec regression

Dave Young dyoung at redhat.com
Sun Oct 27 00:44:33 EDT 2013


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On 10/27/13 at 12:30pm, Dave Young wrote:
> Hi
> 
> While I testing efi runtime patches for kexec kernel, there's
> 2 machines kexec fails on them. It can be reproduced with
> non-efi kernel, so it's not related to the patchset.
> 
> Problem is kexec kernel will immediatly reboot after below
> kernel message:
> smpboot: Booting Node   0, Processors  #   1
> 
> The latter CPUs were not printed.
> 
> nr_cpus=1 works, so there might be some bug on smp code.
> 
> Any idea or suspection acout some patches? This is not 100%
> reproducible, to me it's about 30% thus it's hard to bisect.
> 
> Thanks
> Dave



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