Re: CPA boot crash (was: [PATCH] [0/36] Great change_page_attrpatch series v3)

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Jan 18 2008 - 10:57:20 EST



* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> hm, i just found a failing 64-bit .config while testing your CPA
> patchset:
>
> [ 1.916541] CPA mapping 4k 0 large 2048 gb 0 x 0[0-0] miss 0
> [ 1.919874] Unable to handle kernel paging request at 000000000335aea8 RIP:
> [ 1.919874] [<ffffffff8021d2d3>] change_page_attr+0x3/0x61
> [ 1.919874] PGD 0
> [ 1.919874] Oops: 0000 [1]
> [ 1.919874] CPU 0
>
> config and full crash.log attached. Fully reproducible. I've also
> pushed out the current x86.git with the new CPA bits included.

hm, and your CPA queue is no bisectable, due to:

Subject: Undo pat cpa patch
From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>

Going to implement this differently

commit 5ec5c5a2302ca8794da03f8bedec931a2a814ae9
Author: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Jan 15 09:36:03 2008 +0100

patches/x86-pat-cpa_i386.patch

could you please make your queue bisectable?

Also, did you actually try to port your queue ontop of the cleanups
patch? There's an easy technique: first do an undo patch, then apply
your patch, then apply the re-do patch. Whatever rejects come from the
re-do patch can be dropped from the cleanup. Continue with this until
all patches are covered. Then generate the undo+your-old-patch+redo
patch into a single your-new-patch.

Ingo
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