Re: [nfsd4] potentially hardware breaking regression in 4.14-rc and 4.13.11

2017-11-17 Thread Patrick McLean
On 2017-11-17 04:55 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 4:27 PM, Patrick McLean wrote: >> >> I am still getting the crash at d9e12200852d, I figured I would >> double-check the "good" and "bad" kernels before starting a full bisect. >

Re: [nfsd4] potentially hardware breaking regression in 4.14-rc and 4.13.11

2017-11-17 Thread Patrick McLean
On 2017-11-17 01:26 PM, Kees Cook wrote: > On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 11:03 AM, Patrick McLean wrote: >> On 2017-11-16 04:54 PM, Kees Cook wrote: >>> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Patrick McLean wrote: >>>> On 2017-11-11 09:31 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: >&g

Re: [nfsd4] potentially hardware breaking regression in 4.14-rc and 4.13.11

2017-11-17 Thread Patrick McLean
On 2017-11-16 04:54 PM, Kees Cook wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Patrick McLean wrote: >> On 2017-11-11 09:31 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: >>> Boris Lukashev points out that Patrick should probably check a newer >>> version of gcc. >>> >>&

Re: [nfsd4] potentially hardware breaking regression in 4.14-rc and 4.13.11

2017-11-13 Thread Patrick McLean
On 2017-11-11 09:31 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Boris Lukashev points out that Patrick should probably check a newer > version of gcc. > > I looked around, and in one of the emails, Patrick said: > > "No changes, both the working and broken kernels were built with >distro-provided gcc 5.4.0

Re: [nfsd4] potentially hardware breaking regression in 4.14-rc and 4.13.11

2017-11-10 Thread Patrick McLean
On 2017-11-10 03:26 PM, Patrick McLean wrote: > > > On 2017-11-10 10:42 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 5:58 PM, Patrick McLean wrote: >>> >>> Something must have changed since 4.13.8 to trigger this though. >> >> Arnd pointed t

Re: [nfsd4] potentially hardware breaking regression in 4.14-rc and 4.13.11

2017-11-10 Thread Patrick McLean
On 2017-11-10 10:42 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 5:58 PM, Patrick McLean wrote: >> >> Something must have changed since 4.13.8 to trigger this though. > > Arnd pointed to some commits that might be relevant for the cp210x > module, but those are a

Re: [nfsd4] potentially hardware breaking regression in 4.14-rc and 4.13.11

2017-11-09 Thread Patrick McLean
On 2017-11-09 12:04 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Patrick McLean wrote: >> >> We do have CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK and >> CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL enabled on these boxes as well as >> CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT as you

Re: [nfsd4] potentially hardware breaking regression in 4.14-rc and 4.13.11

2017-11-09 Thread Patrick McLean
On 2017-11-09 11:51 AM, Patrick McLean wrote: > On 2017-11-09 11:37 AM, Al Viro wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 06:40:22PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> >>>> Here is the BUG we are getting: >>>>> [ 58.962528] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL poin

Re: [nfsd4] potentially hardware breaking regression in 4.14-rc and 4.13.11

2017-11-09 Thread Patrick McLean
On 2017-11-09 12:47 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 06:40:22PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> Anyway, that cmovne noise makes it a bit hard to see the actual part >> that matters (and that traps) but I'm almost certain that it's the >> "mnt->mnt_sb->s_flags" loading that is

Re: [nfsd4] potentially hardware breaking regression in 4.14-rc and 4.13.11

2017-11-09 Thread Patrick McLean
On 2017-11-09 11:37 AM, Al Viro wrote: > On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 06:40:22PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >>> Here is the BUG we are getting: [ 58.962528] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0230 [ 58.963918] IP: vfs_statfs+0x73/0xb0 >> >> The

Re: [nfsd4] potentially hardware breaking regression in 4.14-rc and 4.13.11

2017-11-09 Thread Patrick McLean
On 2017-11-09 11:38 AM, Al Viro wrote: > On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 11:34:19AM -0800, Patrick McLean wrote: > >>> In particular, there are *no* nfsd changes in that 4.13.8..4.13.11 >>> range. There is a bunch of xfs changes, though. What's the underlying >>

Re: [nfsd4] potentially hardware breaking regression in 4.14-rc and 4.13.11

2017-11-09 Thread Patrick McLean
On 2017-11-08 06:40 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 4:43 PM, Patrick McLean wrote: >> As of 4.13.11 (and also with 4.14-rc) we have an issue where when >> serving nfs4 sometimes we get the following BUG. When this bug happens, >> it usually also causes

[nfsd4] potentially hardware breaking regression in 4.14-rc and 4.13.11

2017-11-08 Thread Patrick McLean
As of 4.13.11 (and also with 4.14-rc) we have an issue where when serving nfs4 sometimes we get the following BUG. When this bug happens, it usually also causes the motherboard to no longer POST until we externally re-flash the BIOS (using the BMC web interface). If a motherboard does not have an e

Re: [tip:sched/core] mm/numa: Remove BUG_ON() in __handle_mm_fault()

2014-06-23 Thread Patrick McLean
On Thu, 8 May 2014 03:43:19 -0700 Could this please be included in 3.14 and 3.15 stable as well. tip-bot for Rik van Riel wrote: > Commit-ID: 107437febd495a50e2cd09c81bbaa84d30e57b07 > Gitweb: > http://git.kernel.org/tip/107437febd495a50e2cd09c81bbaa84d30e57b07 > Author: Rik van Riel Auth

Re: Regression with initramfs and nfsroot (appears to be in the dcache)

2012-11-29 Thread Patrick McLean
On 29/11/12 06:00 PM, Al Viro wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 05:54:02PM -0800, Patrick McLean wrote: >>> Very interesting. Do you have anything mounted on the corresponding >>> directories on server? The picture looks like you are getting empty >>> fhandles i

Re: Regression with initramfs and nfsroot (appears to be in the dcache)

2012-11-29 Thread Patrick McLean
On 29/11/12 05:36 PM, Al Viro wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 04:57:19PM -0800, Patrick McLean wrote: >>> Interesting... Server-side that should've been produced by >>> encode_entryplus_baggage(), which looks like failing compose_entry_fh()... >>> which has ex

Re: Regression with initramfs and nfsroot (appears to be in the dcache)

2012-11-29 Thread Patrick McLean
On 29/11/12 04:35 PM, Al Viro wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 04:19:51PM -0800, Patrick McLean wrote: >>>> [8.821584] FH(0)] >>>> [8.821586] FH(36)[01 00 07 01 89 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 e1 21 fe c4 9e >>>> 38 44 dc bf 1b d5 95 d6 76 d6 d9 a7 3

Re: Regression with initramfs and nfsroot (appears to be in the dcache)

2012-11-29 Thread Patrick McLean
On 29/11/12 03:43 PM, Al Viro wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 02:53:13PM -0800, Patrick McLean wrote: >> On 29/11/12 02:21 PM, Al Viro wrote: >>> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 02:06:22PM -0800, Patrick McLean wrote: >>> >>>> I have a trivial reproducer and am hap

Re: Regression with initramfs and nfsroot (appears to be in the dcache)

2012-11-29 Thread Patrick McLean
On 29/11/12 02:21 PM, Al Viro wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 02:06:22PM -0800, Patrick McLean wrote: > >> I have a trivial reproducer and am happy to help debug in any way that >> I can. That patch seems to fix the problem, and produces these >> warnings in dmesg

Re: Regression with initramfs and nfsroot (appears to be in the dcache)

2012-11-29 Thread Patrick McLean
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Al Viro wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 11:16:59AM -0800, Patrick McLean wrote: >> With 3.6-rc1 and up, when using a (dracut) initramfs with a read-only >> nfs root, all accesses to /proc. /sys and /dev return EBUSY. > > See "[PATCH] Re

Regression with initramfs and nfsroot (appears to be in the dcache)

2012-11-29 Thread Patrick McLean
With 3.6-rc1 and up, when using a (dracut) initramfs with a read-only nfs root, all accesses to /proc. /sys and /dev return EBUSY. Bisecting finds this commit as where this was introduced: > ee3efa91e240f513898050ef305a49a653c8ed90 is the first bad commit > commit ee3efa91e240f513898050ef305a49a6

BUG: at fs/inotify.c:182 set_dentry_child_flags()

2007-02-27 Thread Patrick McLean
I have this message in the dmesg on a mail server running on an xfs filesystem. It appears to have happened at some point when nfsd was restarted, but I can't seem to convince it to reproduce. The machine is running Gentoo's 2.6.20 kernel. BUG: at fs/inotify.c:182 set_dentry_child_flags() Call T

sorry about that (Old email address)

2001-04-05 Thread Patrick McLean
Sorry about that, that last email had an old address on it, this address should work for replies/cc's: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordo

lockup/crash in 2.4.3 (kernel BUG at exit.c:458!)

2001-04-05 Thread Patrick McLean
After I installed 2.4.3, my system would seemingly randomly hadn, about once a day. It hung at least 3 times, but it looks like theres only entries in my syslog for 2 of those times, my system is an AMD Thununderbird 1Ghz, 256MB RAM, VIA KX133A chipset (Abit KT7A), if there's any other info you