Re: Bisected regression in v5.1 on PowerBook G3 (Wallstreet)

[Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>]

On Wed, 26 Jun 2019, Christophe Leroy wrote:

> Hi Finn,
> 
> On 06/26/2019 02:06 AM, Finn Thain wrote:
> > Hi Christophe,
> > 
> > I received a report of a regression between v5.0 and v5.1 which causes 
> > the current release to crash during boot with a machine check 
> > exception. Please see console log below.
> > 
> > Stan (whom I've Cc'd) tells me that this happens on every attempt to 
> > boot. I asked him to try 'git bisect'. The results are given below. 
> > Can you see anything in commit 93c4a162b014 that might explain this?
> 
> Might be a false positive. That commit has a problem, but that problem 
> is fixed by 4622a2d43101 ("powerpc/6xx: fix setup and use of 
> SPRN_SPRG_PGDIR for hash32")
> 
> I would bet your problem is related to commit f7354ccac844 ("powerpc/32: 
> Remove CURRENT_THREAD_INFO and rename TI_CPU"). That problem is fixed by 
> commit 397d2300b08c ("powerpc/32s: fix flush_hash_pages() on SMP") 
> upstream, and in linux 5.1.4 by commit fda49aec2515 on 
> stable/linux-5.1.y
> 

I see. I've just discovered that this issue has already been covered on 
this list. I should have done a bit more research.

> Can you test ?
> 

Stan did some more tests and confirmed that the problem has been fixed in 
397d2300b08c and stable/linux-5.1.y.

Thanks.

-- 

> Thanks
> Christophe
>