From: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel bug in 5.7 for PPC32 on PowerBook G4 - bisected to commit 697ece7
Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 19:30:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e3e2343-d674-02e0-7b23-81636b472641@csgroup.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2c361d8e-5e2a-cdd9-da8e-aa49a4f93cfd@lwfinger.net>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-23 17:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-23 17:24 Kernel bug in 5.7 for PPC32 on PowerBook G4 - bisected to commit 697ece7 Larry Finger
2020-05-23 17:30 ` Christophe Leroy [this message]
2020-05-23 19:49 ` Larry Finger
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