On 19/11/15 08:50, vas...@iit.demokritos.gr wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the quick answer > >> >> Could you please try the most recent 4.3 kernel? There has been some >> work related to this topic after 4.2 (large page pat handling done by >> Toshi Kani and mtrr/pat handling by Luis Rodriguez). > > That means I will reset the bisection. Right? Is there any other info we > can extract from there?
I don't see what else should be specific to that patch other than the information that the issue occurred due to that patch. All further diagnostic information should be obtainable with a newer kernel, too. > So Do you want me to test 4.3 or 4.4-pre/rc*/latest linus tree. I assume > 4.3 for now. I think 4.3 is okay. > I will do it later tonight. It will take 2 days at least to report back Okay, thank you for your effort! > >> >> Another interesting information would be the exact hardware you are >> using. Maybe we can see some similarities between yours and the other >> two cases you referenced above. >> > > It is an i7 > Motherboard: ASROCK H97 PRO4 RETAIL > CPU INTEL CORE I7-4790 3.60GHZ LGA1150 - BOX > It has 16GB of RAM, one SSD and one HDD > I have NO external graphics card > > Do you want me to run something on this like lspci, lsusb Yes, please post the output of both. > I upgraded the BIOS of the motherboard to the latest. This is not the > problem though because I upgraded after the problem occurred as a counter > measure in case I was hit by a buggy BIOS and linux had changed its > behavior to be stricter. BIOS was my first guess, but in case the other two reports are really due to the same problem I doubt the BIOS is to blame (one Lenovo and one Sony laptop). > I experimented with ACPI compilers/decompilers and I was tempted to fix my > ACPI tables but I didn't. > > I saw the kernel command line option acpi_os=!Windows2013 but I didn't try > it. Do you thing I should try it? You could try "nopat" as command line option. > >> Wow! Thanks for doing this work! >> > > I would like this to be fixed so I am willing to do the testing. I appreciate this spirit. :-) Juergen -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
