Kernel bug in 5.7 for PPC32 on PowerBook G4 - bisected to commit 697ece7

Kernel bug in 5.7 for PPC32 on PowerBook G4 - bisected to commit 697ece7

[Larry Finger]

Hi Christophe,

Although kernel 5.7.0-rc2 appeared to boot cleanly, it failed on my G4 when I 
tried to generate a new kernel. The following BUG message is logged:

[  336.148935] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[  336.148950] kernel BUG at ./include/linux/swapops.h:195!
[  336.148971] Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1]
[  336.148975] BE PAGE_SIZE=4K MMU=Hash PowerMac
[  336.148978] Modules linked in: cpufreq_ondemand fuse ctr ccm b43 mac80211 
sha256_generic libsha256 cfg80211 hid_apple hid_generic joydev rfkill libarc4 
rng_core cordic uinput radeon evdev
ttm drm_kms_helper usbhid hid appletouch drm rack_meter ehci_pci ehci_hcd 
drm_panel_orientation_quirks ssb fb_sys_fops yenta_socket sysimgblt sysfillrect 
pcmcia_rsrc syscopyarea pcmcia pcmcia
_core i2c_powermac therm_adt746x loop ohci_pci ohci_hcd usbcore sungem 
sungem_phy usb_common
[  336.149052] CPU: 0 PID: 8346 Comm: ld Not tainted 5.6.0-rc2-00086-g36b7840 #249
[  336.149056] NIP:  c0166624 LR: c016661c CTR: 00000000
[  336.149062] REGS: f42ddb08 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (5.6.0-rc2-00086-g36b7840)
[  336.149064] MSR:  00029032 <EE,ME,IR,DR,RI>  CR: 24000424  XER: 00000000
[  336.149072]
[  336.149072] GPR00: 00000000 f42ddbc0 c24fcb80 00000001 ef438f00 c1957b1c 
f42ddc4c 00000004
[  336.149072] GPR08: 00000050 00000100 00000000 edb9d000 00000000 100cba68 
10051b10 10051b08
[  336.149072] GPR16: 000001be ee68c078 0000105a 00000000 00000000 c1957b1c 
00000000 00000000
[  336.149072] GPR24: ec5d2540 00000000 7c002bf8 c1957ae0 00000000 ec5d2540 
ef438f00 ef438f00
[  336.149107] NIP [c0166624] _einittext+0x3f9d38a8/0x3fe4a284
[  336.149111] LR [c016661c] _einittext+0x3f9d38a0/0x3fe4a284
[  336.149114] Call Trace:
[  336.149118] [f42ddbc0] [c07b9b60] 0xc07b9b60 (unreliable)
[  336.149123] [f42ddbd0] [c013ff64] _einittext+0x3f9ad1e8/0x3fe4a284
[  336.149128] [f42ddc10] [c0140d4c] _einittext+0x3f9adfd0/0x3fe4a284
[  336.149133] [f42ddc90] [c002aadc] _einittext+0x3f897d60/0x3fe4a284
[  336.149137] [f42ddce0] [c00153a4] _einittext+0x3f882628/0x3fe4a284
[  336.149144] --- interrupt: 301 at _einittext+0x3fb52a50/0x3fe4a284
[  336.149144]     LR = _einittext+0x3fb52a4c/0x3fe4a284
[  336.149148] [f42ddda8] [c02e56c0] _einittext+0x3fb52944/0x3fe4a284 (unreliable)
[  336.149153] [f42ddde8] [c011644c] _einittext+0x3f9836d0/0x3fe4a284
[  336.149158] [f42dde38] [c01f5950] _einittext+0x3fa62bd4/0x3fe4a284
[  336.149163] [f42dde58] [c016b98c] _einittext+0x3f9d8c10/0x3fe4a284
[  336.149167] [f42ddec8] [c016ba60] _einittext+0x3f9d8ce4/0x3fe4a284
[  336.149172] [f42ddef8] [c016bd00] _einittext+0x3f9d8f84/0x3fe4a284
[  336.149177] [f42ddf38] [c0015174] _einittext+0x3f8823f8/0x3fe4a284
[  336.149182] --- interrupt: c01 at 0xfdf99fc
[  336.149182]     LR = 0xfd9cce0
[  336.149184] Instruction dump:
[  336.149189] 40be0018 4bffe359 3c80c06a 3884e48f 4bfd4c9d 0fe00000 4bffe345 
7c641b78
[  336.149196] 38600000 4bffe045 7c630034 5463d97e <0f030000> 39400000 393f001c 
39600001
[  336.149208] ---[ end trace d08833cae9c66ce3 ]---
[  336.149210]
[  336.193729] ------------[ cut here ]------------

This problem was bisected to commit 697ece7 ("powerpc/32s: reorder Linux PTE 
bits to better match Hash PTE bits").

If I had done more rigorous tests earlier, I would have found the bug with more 
time to fix it before release of 5.7, but every other problem I have found 
happened at boot, not when the machine had to swap.

Thanks,

Larry

Re: Kernel bug in 5.7 for PPC32 on PowerBook G4 - bisected to commit 697ece7

[Christophe Leroy]

Hi Larry,

Le 23/05/2020 à 19:24, Larry Finger a écrit :
> Hi Christophe,
> 
> Although kernel 5.7.0-rc2 appeared to boot cleanly, it failed on my G4 
> when I tried to generate a new kernel. The following BUG message is logged:
> 

[...]

> 
> This problem was bisected to commit 697ece7 ("powerpc/32s: reorder Linux 
> PTE bits to better match Hash PTE bits").

Being reversed in new -rc , see 
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/patch/87sgfsf4hs.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au/

> 
> If I had done more rigorous tests earlier, I would have found the bug 
> with more time to fix it before release of 5.7, but every other problem 
> I have found happened at boot, not when the machine had to swap.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Larry

Christophe

Re: Kernel bug in 5.7 for PPC32 on PowerBook G4 - bisected to commit 697ece7

[Larry Finger]

On 5/23/20 12:30 PM, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> Hi Larry,
> 
> Le 23/05/2020 à 19:24, Larry Finger a écrit :
>> Hi Christophe,
>>
>> Although kernel 5.7.0-rc2 appeared to boot cleanly, it failed on my G4 when I 
>> tried to generate a new kernel. The following BUG message is logged:
>>
> 
> [...]
> 
>>
>> This problem was bisected to commit 697ece7 ("powerpc/32s: reorder Linux PTE 
>> bits to better match Hash PTE bits").
> 
> Being reversed in new -rc , see 
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/patch/87sgfsf4hs.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au/ 

Christophe,

Thanks for the update.

Larry