linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] resource, kunit: add dependency on SPARSEMEM

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Message-ID: <2ece7321-f6e8-4d4b-8092-8ff7d3dc760f@roeck-us.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 07:54:58 -0700
From: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] resource, kunit: add dependency on SPARSEMEM

On 9/23/24 06:47, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Günter,
> 
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 3:39 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net> wrote:
>> Interesting that you get that to boot. The q800 machine crashes for me
>> when trying to boot it in qemu with the latest upstream kernel, in function
>> __pte_offset_map_lock(). It bisects to commit 394290cba966 ("mm: turn
>> USE_SPLIT_PTE_PTLOCKS / USE_SPLIT_PTE_PTLOCKS into Kconfig options").
>> Reverting that patch fixes the crash for me. I guess you are not seeing that ?
> 
> I never used qemu -M q800.
> I have just verified that -M virt boots fine?
> 

Not for me :-(

Run /sbin/init as init process
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000014
Oops: 00000000
PC: [<000ca784>] __pte_offset_map_lock+0x36/0x7e

This is with virt_defconfig.

Guenter