linux-kernel - Re: powerpc32 boot crash in 5.1-rc1

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Date:   Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:30:18 +0100
From:   LEROY Christophe <christophe.leroy@....fr>
To:     Meelis Roos <mroos@...ux.ee>
Cc:     linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: powerpc32 boot crash in 5.1-rc1

Meelis Roos <mroos@...ux.ee> a écrit :

>>> While 5.0.0 worked fine on my PowerMac G4, 5.0 + git (unknown rev  
>>> as of Mar 13), 5.0.0-11520-gf261c4e and todays git all fail to boot.
>>>
>>> The problem seems to be in page fault handler in load_elf_binary()  
>>> of init process.
>>
>> The patch at https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1053385/ should fix it
>
> Tested it - yes, it fixes the boot.

Thanks for testing. It will be merged in 5.1-rc2

Christophe

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> Meelis Roos <mroos@...ux.ee>