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From: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
To: Linux regressions mailing list <regressions@lists.linux.dev>
Cc: Nick Bowler <nbowler@draconx.ca>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: sparc64 random crashes starting w/ Linux 6.1 (regression)
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 10:21:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y+z4XlhDzokAMTI1@x1n> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <91b38494-f296-d01d-3b98-6bc51406cad0@leemhuis.info>

On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 03:49:56PM +0100, Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis) wrote:
> On 31.01.23 02:46, Nick Bowler wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Nick, I assume no other problems showed up?
> 
> In that case Peter could send the patch in for merging. Or did you do
> that already?

Thanks for raising this again.  Nop, I'm just waiting for a final ack from
Nick to make sure that nothing went wrong after the longer run.

-- 
Peter Xu


  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-15 15:21 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
2023-02-15 14:49     ` Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis)
2023-02-15 15:21       ` Peter Xu [this message]
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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