From: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
To: mohan@in.ibm.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>,
kexec@lists.infradead.org, miltonm@bga.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Do not inline putprops function
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:26:35 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1245241595.4269.15.camel@concordia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090617115917.GD31595@in.ibm.com>
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On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 17:29 +0530, M. Mohan Kumar wrote:
> Do not inline putprops function
>
> With the recent kexec-tools git tree, both kexec and kdump kernels hang (i.e
> kexec -l and kexec -p respectively). This happened after the patch "ppc64:
> cleanups" commit b43a84a31a4be6ed025c1bdef3bb1c3c12e01b16. I tried
> reverting each hunk and then found out that retaining following lines in
> fs2dt.c makes kexec/kdump work.
>
> -static unsigned *dt_len; /* changed len of modified cmdline
> - in flat device-tree */
>
> [....]
>
> - dt_len = dt;
>
> I don't have any clue why removing a unused variable would cause the kexec
> kernel to hang. After further investigation, I observed that if the putprops
> function is not inlined, kexec/kdump kernel would work even after removing
> the above lines.
>
> This patch directs gcc to not inline the putprops function. Now we could
> invoke kexec and kdump kernels.
What compiler version are you using? Does the behaviour change if you
use a newer/older compiler? It sounds to me like there's some deeper bug
and your patch is just papering over it.
cheers
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-17 12:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-17 11:34 [PATCH] Do not inline putprops function M. Mohan Kumar
2009-06-17 11:45 ` Simon Horman
2009-06-17 11:59 ` M. Mohan Kumar
2009-06-17 12:26 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2009-06-17 13:04 ` Neil Horman
2009-06-17 13:34 ` M. Mohan Kumar
2009-06-17 14:05 ` Neil Horman
2009-06-17 14:26 ` M. Mohan Kumar
2009-06-17 14:40 ` Neil Horman
2009-06-23 12:55 ` M. Mohan Kumar
2009-06-23 13:56 ` Neil Horman
2009-06-24 0:27 ` Michael Ellerman
2009-08-03 5:49 ` M. Mohan Kumar
2009-08-05 16:49 ` M. Mohan Kumar
2009-08-06 14:24 ` Michael Ellerman
2009-08-07 14:35 ` M. Mohan Kumar
2009-08-07 14:54 ` M. Mohan Kumar
2009-08-10 1:51 ` Michael Ellerman
2009-08-10 7:37 ` Milton Miller
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