From: dann frazier <dannf@debian.org>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Subject: ia64 hang/mca running gdb 'make check'
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:35:12 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100720173512.GF26783@ldl.fc.hp.com> (raw)
Debian's ia64 autobuilders have been experiencing system crashes while
trying to run the gdb test suite:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=588574
I was able to reproduce this w/ the latest git tree, and bisected it
down to this commit, introduced in 2.6.32:
commit 62eede62dafb4a6633eae7ffbeb34c60dba5e7b1
Author: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Date: Mon Sep 21 17:03:34 2009 -0700
mm: ZERO_PAGE without PTE_SPECIAL
Reinstate anonymous use of ZERO_PAGE to all architectures, not just to
those which __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL: as suggested by Nick Piggin.
Contrary to how I'd imagined it, there's nothing ugly about this, just a
zero_pfn test built into one or another block of vm_normal_page().
But the MIPS ZERO_PAGE-of-many-colours case demands is_zero_pfn() and
my_zero_pfn() inlines. Reinstate its mremap move_pte() shuffling of
ZERO_PAGEs we did from 2.6.17 to 2.6.19? Not unless someone shouts for
that: it would have to take vm_flags to weed out some cases.
fyi, I found this to not be reproducible on SLES11 SP1 (which is
2.6.32-based). I compared the .configs and found that the relevant
difference is the PAGE_SIZE. It does not fail w/ 64KB pages, but
reliably fails w/ 16KB pages.
next reply other threads:[~2010-07-20 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-20 17:35 dann frazier [this message]
2010-07-21 1:51 ` ia64 hang/mca running gdb 'make check' KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-07-21 3:06 ` dann frazier
2010-07-21 4:19 ` Hugh Dickins
2010-07-21 12:54 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-07-27 7:19 ` dann frazier
2010-07-27 9:03 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-07-27 14:43 ` dann frazier
2010-07-29 3:50 ` Hugh Dickins
2010-07-29 19:22 ` dann frazier
2010-07-30 0:41 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-07-30 2:01 ` Hugh Dickins
2010-07-30 4:34 ` dann frazier
2010-07-30 17:52 ` Hugh Dickins
2010-07-30 17:58 ` [PATCH] mm: fix ia64 crash when gcore reads gate area Hugh Dickins
2010-07-29 7:38 ` ia64 hang/mca running gdb 'make check' Luming Yu
2010-07-29 7:58 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-07-29 8:40 ` Luming Yu
2010-07-29 8:44 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
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