On Saturday, May 30, 2020 3:17:24 PM PDT Will Springer wrote: > On Saturday, May 30, 2020 8:37:43 AM PDT Christophe Leroy wrote: > > There is a series at > > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/list/?series=173231 > > to switch powerpc to the Generic C VDSO. > > > > Can you try and see whether it fixes your issue ? > > > > Christophe > > Sure thing, I spotted that after making the initial post. Will report > back with results. > > Will [she/her]
Sorry for the wait, I just sat down to work on this again yesterday. Tested this series on top of stable/linux-5.7.y (5.7.0 at the time of writing), plus the one-line signal handler patch. Had to rewind to the state of powerpc/merge at the time of the mail before the patch would apply, then cherry-picked to 5.6 until I realized the patchset used some functionality that didn't land until 5.7, so I moved it there. Good news is that `date` now works correctly with the vdso call in 32-bit LE. Bad news is it seems to have broken things on the 64-bit side—in my testing, Void kicks off runit but hangs after starting eudev, and in a Debian Stretch system, systemd doesn't get to the point of printing anything whatsoever. (I had to `init=/bin/sh` to confirm the date worked in ppcle, although in ppc64le running `date` also hung the system when it made the vdso call...) Not sure how to approach debugging that, so I'd appreciate any pointers. Will [she/her]
