Re: sparse problem with Linux kernel v5.5

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>]

On 2/6/20 3:46 AM, Luc Van Oostenryck wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 07:18:45AM +0000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 4:49 AM Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Also, what is errno 137? (0x89)
>>
>> I think that's just "killed by signal 9" (the high bit is "killed by
>> signal", the low bits are the signal number).

oh. thanks.
(seems like I asked about something similar around 15 years ago
but now I don't recall it :)

>> SIGKILL - oom? What does 'dmesg' say? Maybe there's some exponential
>> memory use triggered by something in that bpf_sk_storage file..

All of the oom-killer instances list sphinx-build as running, and I often
have OOM problems using it (make htmldocs), so that may be a factor.

This morning sparse is handling bpf_sk_storage.c OK (no sphinx-build running).


But I can post the dmesg output if you want to see it.

> Hi Randy,
> What config are you using?

I'm using allmodconfig.


thanks.
-- 
~Randy