On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 11:07 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > Eran Liberty wrote: > > After compiling a kernel with ftrace I started to experience all sorts > > of crashes. > > Just to make sure... > > ftrace enables markers too, and RCU has tracing with the markers. This > may not be the problem, but I just want to eliminate as many variables > as possible. > Could you disable ftrace, but keep the markers on too. Also, could you > enable ftrace again and turn on the FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST.
I spent some time last week tracking one of those crashes and it appears that we are getting corruption of some of the non-volatile registers. So far, I found out that it -seems- to be coming from stack frame corruption during a timer interrupt. I haven't had a chance to dig further yet. Cheers, Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
