Re: ftrace introduces instability into kernel 2.6.27(-rc2,-rc3)

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

> Register GPR30 is always zero... (also true for the other oops)

>From my experiments, -a- non volatile register gets corrupted. Not
always the same and not always with the same value.

The corruption -seems- to happen due to corruption of the location on
the stack where it was saved to / restored from in a previous function
call or interrupt.

I haven't yet tracked down what actually whacks the stack.

Ben.


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