Re: [x86] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 00740060

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Oct 09 2013 - 08:52:36 EST



* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 08:19:11PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> > > > Fengguang, I do not think this will help, but just in case. Could you
> > > > show the result of
> > > >
> > > > $ kernel/task_work.s
> >
> > Update: I recompiled the kernel with gcc 4.4.7 and find it booting fine!
>
> > # 208 "/c/wfg/tip/arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h" 1
> > bts $1, 8(%eax); setc %dl #,, c
>
> That compiler doesn't appear to have asm goto support, so we fall back
> to the code we already knew worked :-)

I'm using 4.7.2 with randconfig testing, which has asm goto support, and I
haven't seen this crash yet.

Unless my testing is off it might be a bug in GCC 4.8, or a pre-existing
bug gets exposed by GCC 4.8.

Thanks,

Ingo
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