From: Nick Bowler <nbowler@draconx.ca>
To: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org,
regressions@lists.linux.dev,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: sparc64 random crashes starting w/ Linux 6.1 (regression)
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2023 20:46:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADyTPEzsvdRC15+Z5T3oryofwRYqHmHzwqRmJKJoHB3d7Tdayw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y9bvwz4FIOQ+D8c4@x1n>
On 2023-01-29, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 09:17:31PM -0500, Nick Bowler wrote:
>> Starting with Linux 6.1.y, my sparc64 (Sun Ultra 60) system is very
>> unstable, with userspace processes randomly crashing with all kinds of
>> different weird errors. The same problem occurs on 6.2-rc5. Linux
>> 6.0.y is OK.
[...]
> Could you try below patch to see whether it fixes your problem? It should
> cover the last piece of possible issue with dirty bit on sparc after that
> patchset. It's based on latest master branch (commit ab072681eabe1ce0).
Haven't seen any failures yet, so it seems this patch on top of 6.2-rc6
makes things much better.
I'll keep running this for a while to see if any other problems come up.
Thanks,
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-31 1:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-29 2:17 PROBLEM: sparc64 random crashes starting w/ Linux 6.1 (regression) Nick Bowler
2023-01-29 22:14 ` Peter Xu
2023-01-30 1:36 ` Nick Bowler
2023-01-31 1:46 ` Nick Bowler [this message]
2023-02-15 14:49 ` Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis)
2023-02-15 15:21 ` Peter Xu
2023-02-16 5:32 ` Nick Bowler
2023-02-16 15:33 ` Peter Xu
2023-01-30 9:37 ` Linux kernel regression tracking (#adding)
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