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Message-ID: <52D8A057.4080202@roeck-us.net>
Date:	Thu, 16 Jan 2014 19:15:35 -0800
From:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Kevin Hao <haokexin@...il.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Kernel stack overflows due to  "powerpc: Remove ksp_limit on
 ppc64" with v3.13-rc8 on ppc32 (P2020)

On 01/16/2014 06:58 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 10:20 +0800, Kevin Hao wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:05:32AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am getting kernel stack overflows with v3.13-rc8 on a system with P2020 CPU.
>>> The kernel is patched for the target, but I don't think that is related.
>>> Stack overflows are in different areas, but always in calls from __do_softirq.
>>>
>>> Crashes happen reliably either during boot or if I put any kind of load
>>> onto the system.
>>
>> How about the following fix:
>
> Wow. I've been staring at that code for 15mn this morning and didn't
> spot it ! Nice catch :-)
>
Yes, great catch! That fixes the problem.

Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>

I assume you or Kevin will take it from there ?

Thanks,
Guenter

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