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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Ira W. Snyder" <iws@ovro.caltech.edu>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org, mingo@redhat.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING broken on 83xx (and all of powerpc?)
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:02:36 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1283994156.6515.6.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100908232124.GB30291@ovro.caltech.edu>

On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 16:21 -0700, Ira W. Snyder wrote:
> 
> 
> I am happy to provide more information if it will help. I'm not
> especially
> good at working the debugger. I can't get it to stop at machine_init()
> and let
> me step through the code.
> 
> I tried this feature when it first became available on powerpc, and it
> did not work then. At that time, I didn't have the resources to
> investigate further. I don't think a git bisect will help in this
> case.

That's a concern... lockdep_init() is expected to only perform static
initializations...

Any chance you can stick a data breakpoint early on to catch when the
corruption happens ?

Cheers,
Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-09  1:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-08 23:21 CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING broken on 83xx (and all of powerpc?) Ira W. Snyder
2010-09-09  1:02 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2010-09-09  2:52   ` Ira W. Snyder
2010-09-09  2:58     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-09-09 16:23       ` Ira W. Snyder
2010-09-09 18:44         ` Ira W. Snyder
2010-09-09 19:10           ` Timur Tabi
2010-09-09 19:36             ` Ira W. Snyder
2010-09-09 19:40               ` Timur Tabi
2010-09-09 20:06                 ` Ira W. Snyder
2010-09-09 20:13                   ` Timur Tabi
2010-09-09 20:31                     ` Ira W. Snyder
2010-09-09 20:36                       ` Timur Tabi
2010-09-09 20:55                         ` Ira W. Snyder
2010-09-09 21:19                           ` Timur Tabi
2010-09-09 22:01               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-09-09 19:33           ` Ira W. Snyder
2010-09-09 21:58         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-09-09 22:11           ` Scott Wood
2010-09-09 22:13             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-09-09 22:16               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-09-09 22:37               ` Scott Wood
2010-09-09 22:49                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-09-10 11:29                 ` Wolfgang Denk

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