On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 04:49:29PM -0500, Steve Wills wrote: > Hi, > > On 12/16/2016 16:20, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Thursday, December 15, 2016 03:57:58 PM Adrian Chadd wrote: > >> heh, an updated BIOS that solves the problem will solve the problem. :) > >> > >> I think you have enough information to provide to supermicro. Ie, > >> "SMAP says X, when physical memory pages at addresses X are accessed, > >> they don't behave like memory, maybe something is wrong". > >> > >> All I can think of is some hack to add a blacklist for that region so > >> you can boot the unit. But it makes me wonder what else is going on. > > > > We have the blacklist: it is the memory test. That is the way to workaround > > this type of BIOS breakage. This is just the first time in over a decade that > > test has been relevant. > > I've got a SuperMicro X10SRA board that I bought back in March, I think. > It was run CURRENT fine since then, until last month, when it started > hanging during boot. I was about to update it to a new version of > CURRENT when it started hanging at boot, but hadn't updated yet. The > hang is after (verbose boot): What is the exact version of the kernel you are running and which hangs ? Try to bisect. Do you have EARLY_AP_STARTUP option in the kernel config ? > > ACPI APIC Table: <SUPERM SMCI--MB> > Package ID shift: 4 > L3 cache ID shift: 4 > L2 cache ID shift: 1 > L1 cache ID shift: 1 > Core ID shift: 1 Send NMI with 'ipmi power diag' and show the machine state from ddb. > > Recently I've tried booting 9.3 and 10.3 on it without success. Other > operating systems boot fine. Thinking the hang was similar to the one in > this thread (or at least the board is), I tried many different BIOS > changes and also tried enabling the memory test, but none of that > changes anything. This is a single socket board so there are no NUMA or > memory interleaving options in the BIOS. The BIOS is up to date (2.0a). > It will boot if SMP is disabled. That's obviously sub-optimal, but is > useful for building updated kernels, which I've tried. If anyone has any > suggestions or ideas, I'd appreciate it. > > Thanks, > Steve >Received on Wed Dec 21 2016 - 10:58:52 UTC
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