On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:36:35 -0700 (PDT) Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > This crashes my powerpc mac g5. > > It worked fine on mine. > > > It happens after the boot, during the first login-over-ssh. > > Mine did lots of stuff fine. > > > This is with most of the rest of the -mm poopile applied. i386 and x86_64 > > seem OK. > > I had only tested with Linus's tree plus the small handful of post-2.6.25 > cleanup patches I've posted in the last few weeks. To be precise it was > 9597362d354f8655ece324b01d0c640a0e99c077 plus several of my cleanup patches > (that are probably all in -mm, but I'm not sure off hand). > > I'd rebased my tree today to 783e391b7b5b273cd20856d8f6f4878da8ec31b3 > anyway. I just tried the new kernel with the sigmask cleanups and only > a few other patches, and have no problems. > > The details of your crash make it look pretty unrelated to this code. > Off hand I would guess that it's some other bug from other -mm patches > that just happens only to bite you on powerpc. If the crash is not > intermittent and you bisected it to this one change, then I am at a > loss to see what might be happening. I'd have to leave it to Paul et > al to figure out if there is some strange powerpc juju going on. It's 100% repeatable and I bisected it to this change. I expect you could repeat it by applying it to http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ (or to -rc6-mm2, if I ever manage to get it to boot on something) and using http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-g5.txt _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
