From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-oi0-x244.google.com (mail-oi0-x244.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c06::244]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 41GSQM04xDzF1Mm for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2018 15:05:11 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-oi0-x244.google.com with SMTP id y207-v6so3975907oie.13 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2018 22:05:11 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Larry Finger To: Matthew Wilcox , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , Vlastimil Babka , Christoph Lameter , Dave Hansen , =?UTF-8?B?SsOpcsO0bWUgR2xpc3Nl?= , Lai Jiangshan , Martin Schwidefsky , Pekka Enberg , Randy Dunlap , Andrey Ryabinin , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Paul Mackerras , Michael Ellerman From: Larry Finger Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, LKML Subject: Regression in 4.18 - 32-bit PowerPC crashes on boot - bisected to commit 1d40a5ea01d5 Message-ID: <5a98ad6b-e209-a9dc-98db-1745ef5b7f87@lwfinger.net> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 00:05:07 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , My PowerBook G4 Aluminum crashes on boot with 4.18-rcX kernels with a kernel BUG at include/linux/page-flags.h:700! The problem was bisected to commit 1d40a5ea01d5 ("mm: mark pages in use for page tables"). It is not possible to capture the bug with anything other than a camera. The first few lines of the traceback are as follows: free_pgd_range+0x19c/0x30c (unreliable) free_pgtables_0xa0/0xb0 exit_pmap+0xf4/0x16c mmput+0x64/0xf0 do_exit+0x33c/0x89c oops_end+0x13c/0x144 _exception_pkey+0x58/0x128 ret_from_except_full+0x0/0x4 --- interrupt: 700 at free_pgd_range+0x19c/0x30c LR = free_pgd_range+0x19c/0x30c free_pgtables+0xa/0xb exit_mnap+0xf4/0x16c mmput+0x64/0xf0 flush_old_exec+0x490/0x550 I have a PDF of the complete dump, but I hesitate to send this to the entire group. Thanks, Larry