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From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
To: Robert Richter <robert.richter@cavium.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org>,
	Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@huawei.com>,
	James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] arm64: mm: enable CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE for NUMA
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 12:03:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170106120339.GA20726@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170105194944.GY4930@rric.localdomain>

On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 08:49:44PM +0100, Robert Richter wrote:
> On 05.01.17 13:22:00, Robert Richter wrote:
> > On 05.01.17 12:08:20, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > I really can't see how the fix causes a crash, and I couldn't reproduce
> > > it on any of my boards, nor could any of the Linaro folk afaik. Are you
> > > definitely running mainline with just these two patches from Ard?
> > 
> > Yes, just both patches applied. Various other solutions were working.
> 
> I have retested the same kernel (v4.9 based) as before and now it
> boots fine including rtc-efi device registration (it was crashing
> there):
> 
>  rtc-efi rtc-efi: rtc core: registered rtc-efi as rtc0
> 
> There could be a difference in firmware and mem setup, though I also
> downgraded the firmware to test it, but can't reproduce it anymore. I
> could reliable trigger the crash the first time.
> 
> FTR the oops.

Hmm, I just can't help but think you were accidentally running with
additional patches when you saw this oops previously. For example,
your log looks very similar to this one:

  http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2016-December/473666.html

but then again, these crashes probably often look alike.

Will

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-06 12:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-14  9:11 [PATCH 0/2] arm64: numa: fix spurious BUG() on NOMAP regions Ard Biesheuvel
2016-12-14  9:11 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: don't dereference struct page fields of invalid pages Ard Biesheuvel
2017-01-04 12:16   ` Will Deacon
2016-12-14  9:11 ` [PATCH 2/2] arm64: mm: enable CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE for NUMA Ard Biesheuvel
2016-12-15 15:39   ` Robert Richter
2016-12-15 16:07     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-12-16 17:10       ` Robert Richter
2016-12-16  1:57     ` Hanjun Guo
2016-12-16 17:14       ` Robert Richter
2017-01-04 13:28   ` Will Deacon
2017-01-04 13:50     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2017-01-04 14:02       ` Will Deacon
2017-01-05 11:24         ` Robert Richter
2017-01-05 12:08           ` Will Deacon
2017-01-05 12:22             ` Robert Richter
2017-01-05 19:49               ` Robert Richter
2017-01-06 12:03                 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2017-01-06 12:22                   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2017-02-06 13:36   ` Robert Richter

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