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RE: [Xen-devel] [xen-unstable bisection] complete test-amd64-i386-xl

To: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxx>, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>, Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] [xen-unstable bisection] complete test-amd64-i386-xl
From: "Liu, Jinsong" <jinsong.liu@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:03:12 +0800
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Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 09/08/2011 12:47, "Ian Jackson" <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> I wrote:
>>> Sadly this means we can't easily see when the other bug was
>>> introduced.  I will see if I can do the bisection by hand, applying
>>> 23742 to each commit.
>> 
>>   1d1692ac1a9b1f183a234736fd5196d7048562dc is first bad commit
>>   commit 1d1692ac1a9b1f183a234736fd5196d7048562dc
>>   Author: Liu, Jinsong <jinsong.liu@xxxxxxxxx>
>>   Date:   Sat Jul 23 08:55:59 2011 +0100
>> 
>>       acpi: Add support for old and new bios erst, enable mce_apei
>> logic 
> 
> If it's really this changeset it's a bit weird. It would have to be
> due to the more permissive table validation causing us to enable ACPI
> ERST support based on a bad BIOS table, or a table which for some
> reason we're not supporting properly, or a class of machines (e.g.,
> AMD) for which our ERST logic is not currently implemented properly.
> 
> Does reverting just the change to erst_check_table() fix the
> regression on the affected test boxes? What about the similar-looking
> boot failure that you see, Jeremy?
> 
>  -- Keir
> 

It looks strange to me. Native linux also update it to work well at different 
bios platform.
We have tested it at our 'old' and a 'new' platform, it works well with the 
patch.
I'm not sure why it cannot work at the machine you test.

Thanks,
Jinsong



>>       When testing, we found different bios has different
>>       understanding about APEI ERST table header, depending on
>>       whether it count ACPI       standard header or not. This patch
>> add support for both bios version, and enable mce_apei. 
>> 
>>       Signed-off-by: Liu, Jinsong <jinsong.liu@xxxxxxxxx>
>> 
>>   :040000 040000 93ae5d0dd96848631153860c08e6c68cf012d3ff
>> 89b2cdaf4ba0546074680174809976d8371edbde M   xen
>> 
>> This corresponds to:
>> 
>>   changeset:   23736:31683aa4bfb3
>>   user:        Liu, Jinsong <jinsong.liu@xxxxxxxxx>
>>   date:        Sat Jul 23 08:55:59 2011 +0100
>>   files:       xen/arch/x86/cpu/mcheck/Makefile
>>   xen/drivers/acpi/apei/erst.c   description: acpi: Add support for
>> old and new bios erst, enable mce_apei logic 
>> 
>>   When testing, we found different bios has different understanding
>>   about APEI ERST table header, depending on whether it count ACPI  
>>   standard header or not. This patch add support for both bios
>> version, and enable mce_apei. 
>> 
>>   Signed-off-by: Liu, Jinsong <jinsong.liu@xxxxxxxxx>
>> 
>> Ian.


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