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From: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
	Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>,
	Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>,
	Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Linux 6.1-rc3
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2022 19:19:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANiq72nfpdhPgEgWbz2T7C3GOk94mPbcqfvXTp3Lp=qRvtON9g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <29d07648-29a9-432a-a666-f9c9e55c32f6@app.fastmail.com>

On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 6:58 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>
> Linker-generated symbols are usually the cause, but those tend to
> be fixed with the extra pass, and Guenter said that doing an extra
> pass does not avoid the issue here.

I have been trying to reproduce the issue on my side, trying to match
Guenter's environment, but so far I have not been successful, even
when running the toolchain binaries he sent me (thanks a lot!).

What I could reproduce easily, though, was one from the kernel test
robot, powerpc as well, in 5.15.y [1] It requires 4 passes (i.e.
KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is not enough), but it is not an oscillating one.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202209241418.35P6OMjS-lkp@intel.com/

> What I've done in the past to debug this was to change
> scripts/link-vmlinux.sh to use a larger number of steps,
> mainly to see if it eventually converges, grows indefinitely
> or oscillates.

Does that mean you saw the oscillating one in the past? Guenter thinks
it is a new issue, since he never saw the oscillating case.

If you did see it, then it may be the case that the kallsyms changes
make some edge case more likely -- at least this is what Boqun and I
originally thought.

Cheers,
Miguel

  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-01 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-30 22:35 Linux 6.1-rc3 Linus Torvalds
2022-11-01  8:02 ` Build regressions/improvements in v6.1-rc3 Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-11-01  8:08   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-11-01 17:00 ` Linux 6.1-rc3 Guenter Roeck
2022-11-01 17:29   ` Linus Torvalds
2022-11-01 17:37     ` Linus Torvalds
2022-11-01 17:57     ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-11-01 18:19       ` Miguel Ojeda [this message]
2022-11-01 18:26       ` Guenter Roeck
2022-11-01 18:37     ` Guenter Roeck
2023-02-02  7:40       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-02-02  8:33         ` Geert Uytterhoeven

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