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Subject: Re: [Update] Regression in 4.18 - 32-bit PowerPC crashes on boot -
 bisected to commit 1d40a5ea01d5
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 1:42 PM Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:
>>
>> I have more information regarding this BUG. Line 700 of page-flags.h is the
>> macro PAGE_TYPE_OPS(Table, table). For further debugging, I manually expanded
>> the macro, and found that the bug line is VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageTable(page), page)
>> in routine __ClearPageTable(), which is called from pgtable_page_dtor() in
>> include/linux/mm.h. I also added a printk call to PageTable() that logs
>> page->page_type. The routine was called twice. The first had page_type of
>> 0xfffffbff, which would have been expected for a . The second call had
>> 0xffffffff, which led to the BUG.
>
> So it looks to me like the tear-down of the page tables first found a
> page that is indeed a page table, and cleared the page table bit
> (well, it set it - the bits are reversed).
...
>
> That said, can some ppc person who knows the 32-bit ppc code and maybe
> knows what that "interrupt: 700" means talk about that oddity in the
> trace, please?

I think everyone else answered your questions here, and it should be
fixed now in your tree.

Larry let me know if you're still seeing a crash with 4.18-rc3.

cheers