linux-kernel - Re: Droid 4 boot failure due to 422580c3cea7 (mm/oom_kill.c: add tracepoints for oom reaper-related events)

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Message-ID: <20170717101927.GJ10026@atomide.com>
Date:   Mon, 17 Jul 2017 03:19:28 -0700
From:   Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
To:     Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@...labora.co.uk>
Cc:     Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-OMAP <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Droid 4 boot failure due to 422580c3cea7 (mm/oom_kill.c: add
 tracepoints for oom reaper-related events)

* Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@...labora.co.uk> [170717 02:52]:
> On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 10:59:42PM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > Sebastian, for me droid 4 boots just fine with v4.13-rc1 +
> > 19d39a3810e if that helps. So that's with commit 422580c3cea7.
> 
> v4.13-rc1 + 19d39a3810e was also broken for me. I just disabled
> some unused bits in my .config and now the kernel boots with
> (with 422580c3cea7 that is). Maybe I hit some maximum image size
> limit for Droid 4?
> 
> Anyways it looks like 422580c3cea7 is not the actual problem
> and merely reveals some other problem.

OK. Maybe check kexec --image-size configuration if you have
a huge static kernel?

Tony