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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
To: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Mutex debug lock failure [was Re: Bad gcc-4.1.0 leads to Power4 crashes... and power5 too, actually
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:41:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1166712099.8869.16.camel@earth> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061221010319.GE16860@austin.ibm.com>

On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 19:03 -0600, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> Same kernel runs fine on power5. Although it does have patches
> applied, those very same patches boot fine when applied to a slightly
> older kernel (2.6.19-rc4).  I haven't been messing with buids or 
> pci config space (at least not intentionaly).
> 
> I'll try again with an unpatched, unmodified kernel.

there have been a number of fixes to lockdep recently - could you try
the kernel/lockdep.c file from latest -mm, does that fail too?

one possibility would be a chain-hash collision.

	Ingo

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
To: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
	mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: Mutex debug lock failure [was Re: Bad gcc-4.1.0 leads to Power4 crashes... and power5 too, actually
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:41:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1166712099.8869.16.camel@earth> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061221010319.GE16860@austin.ibm.com>

On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 19:03 -0600, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> Same kernel runs fine on power5. Although it does have patches
> applied, those very same patches boot fine when applied to a slightly
> older kernel (2.6.19-rc4).  I haven't been messing with buids or 
> pci config space (at least not intentionaly).
> 
> I'll try again with an unpatched, unmodified kernel.

there have been a number of fixes to lockdep recently - could you try
the kernel/lockdep.c file from latest -mm, does that fail too?

one possibility would be a chain-hash collision.

	Ingo


  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-21 14:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-20  0:46 Bad gcc-4.1.0 leads to Power4 crashes... and power5 too, actually Linas Vepstas
2006-12-20  0:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-12-20  1:02   ` Linas Vepstas
2006-12-20  1:46 ` Peter Bergner
2006-12-20 21:19   ` Linas Vepstas
2006-12-20 21:28     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-12-20 23:03       ` Mutex debug lock failure [was " Linas Vepstas
2006-12-20 23:03         ` Linas Vepstas
2006-12-20 23:09         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-12-20 23:09           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-12-20 23:46           ` Linas Vepstas
2006-12-20 23:46             ` Linas Vepstas
2006-12-21  0:36             ` Anton Blanchard
2006-12-21  0:36               ` Anton Blanchard
2006-12-21  1:03               ` Linas Vepstas
2006-12-21  1:03                 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-12-21 14:41                 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2006-12-21 14:41                   ` Ingo Molnar
2006-12-21 21:12                   ` Linas Vepstas
2006-12-21 21:12                     ` Linas Vepstas
2006-12-23  6:28     ` Alan Modra

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