linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] powerpc TLF_RESTORE

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Message-Id: <20080410185029.ef80d5f9.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:50:29 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
Cc:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc TLF_RESTORE_SIGMASK

On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:36:35 -0700 (PDT) Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com> wrote:

> > This crashes my powerpc mac g5.
> 
> It worked fine on mine.
> 
> > It happens after the boot, during the first login-over-ssh.
> 
> Mine did lots of stuff fine.
> 
> > This is with most of the rest of the -mm poopile applied.  i386 and x86_64
> > seem OK.
> 
> I had only tested with Linus's tree plus the small handful of post-2.6.25
> cleanup patches I've posted in the last few weeks.  To be precise it was
> 9597362d354f8655ece324b01d0c640a0e99c077 plus several of my cleanup patches
> (that are probably all in -mm, but I'm not sure off hand).
> 
> I'd rebased my tree today to 783e391b7b5b273cd20856d8f6f4878da8ec31b3
> anyway.  I just tried the new kernel with the sigmask cleanups and only 
> a few other patches, and have no problems.
> 
> The details of your crash make it look pretty unrelated to this code.
> Off hand I would guess that it's some other bug from other -mm patches
> that just happens only to bite you on powerpc.  If the crash is not
> intermittent and you bisected it to this one change, then I am at a
> loss to see what might be happening.  I'd have to leave it to Paul et
> al to figure out if there is some strange powerpc juju going on.

It's 100% repeatable and I bisected it to this change.

I expect you could repeat it by applying it to
http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ (or to -rc6-mm2, if I ever manage to
get it to boot on something) and using
http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-g5.txt
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