On Thu, 17 Sep 2015, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 12:13:15 +0200 (CEST)
> Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> wrote:
>
> > Digging deeper. My assumption that it's a post powerpc merge failure
> > turned out to be wrong.
>
> Does 4.2 have the problem?
No. Neither does
4c92b5bb1422: Merge branch 'pcmcia' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm
> If it's a corruption of the mcount tables, it could be specific on what
> the compiler does. That is, the working of one kernel to the other, may
> only depend on how gcc compiled something. Have you tried different
> compilers? Maybe one version of gcc may work over another?
It just results in a different failure mode. Instead of silently
hanging I get:
[ 2.248275] Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 4 [#1]
[ 2.253633] PREEMPT lite5200
[ 2.256584] Modules linked in:
[ 2.259723] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted
4.3.0-rc1-51179-gae80a2f-dirty #75
[ 2.267815] task: c383c000 ti: c383a000 task.ti: c383a000
[ 2.273330] NIP: c00e1eec LR: c00df0f4 CTR: 00000000
[ 2.278405] REGS: c383bcd0 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted
(4.3.0-rc1-51179-gae80a2f-dirty)
[ 2.286396] MSR: 00089032 <EE,ME,IR,DR,RI> CR: 44824028 XER: 00000000
[ 2.293187]
GPR00: c00def84 c383bd80 c383c000 c3084000 bffffff1 00677595 c383bdd8 00000000
GPR08: 00000001 00000001 00000400 00000002 24828022 00000000 c0004254 84822042
GPR16: 20000000 44822042 fffff000 c3086ffc c06ce248 c383a000 c3082000 c06d0000
GPR24: c383a000 00000ffc 00677595 bffffff1 c3084000 c3015bfc 00000017 c3086000
[ 2.323656] NIP [c00e1eec] vm_normal_page+0x0/0xdc
[ 2.328560] LR [c00df0f4] follow_page_mask+0x260/0x4fc
[ 2.333807] Call Trace:
[ 2.336321] [c383bd80] [c00def84] follow_page_mask+0xf0/0x4fc (unreliable)
[ 2.343360] [c383bdd0] [c00df4a4] __get_user_pages.part.28+0x114/0x3e0
[ 2.350050] [c383be30] [c010e788] copy_strings+0x16c/0x2c8
[ 2.355668] [c383bea0] [c010e91c] copy_strings_kernel+0x38/0x50
[ 2.361730] [c383bec0] [c011057c] do_execveat_common+0x440/0x658
[ 2.367877] [c383bf10] [c01107cc] do_execve+0x38/0x48
[ 2.373056] [c383bf20] [c00039f0] try_to_run_init_process+0x24/0x64
[ 2.379469] [c383bf30] [c000430c] kernel_init+0xb8/0x10c
[ 2.384924] [c383bf40] [c0010c40] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64
[ 2.391242] --- interrupt: 0 at (null)
[ 2.391242] LR = (null)
[ 2.398263] Instruction dump:
[ 2.401297] 01000000 00037000 00000000 00000000 f0000000 00000001 0a641e09
acde4823
[ 2.409237] 000f0000 179a7b00 07de2900 03ef1480 <01f78a40> 0001c200 60000000
9421fff0
[ 2.417375] ---[ end trace 996fd312ce9c18ce ]---
Again, if I disable CONFIG_TRACER its gone.
Thanks,
tglx
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