Re: Random panic in load_balance() with 3.16-rc

Michel Dänzer
2014-07-29T02:29:18Z

On 29.07.2014 01:48, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Michel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net> wrote:
>> On 27.07.2014 04:56, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>>
>>> Also, Michel - can you try this patch if you still have your
>>> gcc-4.9.0 install, and send me the resulting fair.s file again?
>>
>> Attached.
>
> The frame setup looks fine to me now (apart from the spilling of a
> constant value, but hey, that wasn't _buggy_, that was just stupid).
>
> And I'm assuming everything runs fine too?

I've rebased my .config on the one from the current Debian kernel
packages, which no longer enables CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE. So I'm no
longer affected by this bug anyway. (I used the old .config for
compiling the fair.s above though)

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