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Bug#883938: RFT: Candidate fix for boot failure of Debian 8.10 on various x86 systems



On Mon, 2017-12-18 at 18:40 +0000, Thomas Patrick Downes wrote:
> Is there going to be any kind of post-mortem analysis of how this
> happened?

I think it would be good to do this, but it doesn't seem to be
something that Debian does as a matter of course, and I'm unlikely to
be the right person to lead such an analysis.  It might be worth
proposing this to the release team (debian-release mailing list).

[...]
> It would also be helpful if you clearly stated whether this (a)
> affects all multi-socket systems and (b) whether it affected any
> single-socket systems. Between the sample bias of bug reports
> themselves and the “fog of war” neither conclusion is clear.

I'm afraid I still don't have a deep enough understanding of the bug to
say for sure.  Given that 'numa=off' appears to be a workaround, I
suspect that it is triggered by multiple NUMA nodes.  That would imply
that older multi-socket systems with a shared memory controller would
not be affected, while some single-socket systems with multiple memory
controllers would be affected.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit.  It's the only way to be
sure.

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