linux-kernel - Re: [POWERPC][next-20190603] Boot failure : Kernel BUG at mm/vmalloc.c:470

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Date:   Tue, 4 Jun 2019 20:29:18 +1000
From:   Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:     Sachin Sant <sachinp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [POWERPC][next-20190603] Boot failure : Kernel BUG at
 mm/vmalloc.c:470

Hi Sachin,

On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 14:45:43 +0530 Sachin Sant <sachinp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> While booting linux-next [next-20190603] on a POWER9 LPAR following
> BUG is encountered and the boot fails.
> 
> If I revert the following 2 patches I no longer see this BUG message
> 
> 07031d37b2f9 ( mm/vmalloc.c: switch to WARN_ON() and move it under unlink_va() )
> 728e0fbf263e ( mm/vmalloc.c: get rid of one single unlink_va() when merge )

This latter patch has been fixed in today's linux-next ...

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

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