Re: [patch 0/9] x86, xsave: xsave/xrstor support

[Ingo Molnar]

* Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:25:39AM -0700, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > I briefly merged it into tip/master to test it, but after about 10
> > randconfig iterations it ran into a spontaneous reboot crash. There's
> > nothing in the log, the box (an Athlon64 X2) just reboots spontaneously.
> > Removing the x86/xsave changes makes the system boot up fine.
> > 
> > I've pushed out the tree i tested into the tip/tmp.x86/xsave.broken
> > branch. The bad config is:
> > 
> >   http://redhat.com/~mingo/misc/config-Wed_Jul_30_20_09_12_CEST_2008.bad
> 
> Ingo, 2.6.25, 2.6.26 also reboots randomly with this config on my 
> dual-socket system.

hmmm ....

a few guesses: perhaps I2C related (the randconfig turned on I2C bits)? 
Do you have any way (hw test-kit) to figure out where the reboot comes 
from - is it a triple fault caused by the kernel? Or some hardware 
event?

	Ingo
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