Re: Crash in -next due to 'MIPS: Move FP usage checks into protected_{save, restore}_fp_context'

[Paul Burton]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 10:46:22AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 10:21:42AM -0700, Paul Burton wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 08:06:52AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 09:09:18AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > my qemu test for mipsel crashes with next-20150715 as follows.
> > > > 
> > > ping ... problem is still seen as of next-20150727.
> > 
> > Hi Guenter,
> > 
> > Apologies for the delay. Could you share your affected kernel
> > configuration & which userland you're running?
> > 
> > I've just tested with a malta_defconfig kernel & a buildroot based
> > initramfs without problems, and things are also fine on my physical
> > MIPSr6 setups. If you have any directions with which I can reproduce
> > this problem that would be great.
> > 
> This is with qemu in little endian mode. Big endian works fine.

Yup, I was using little endian in both cases. malta_defconfig is little
endian - sadly use of the el suffix is pretty inconsistent...

> The configuration, the script to build and run the kernel, 
> and the root file system used are are available at
> https://github.com/groeck/linux-build-test, in directory
> rootfs/mipsel/. The log for the latest build failure is in
> http://server.roeck-us.net:8010/builders/qemu-mipsel-next/builds/194/steps/qemubuildcommand/logs/stdio.

Thanks for the pointers, I'm able to reproduce it using your config and
initramfs, and I'll dig into what's going on here.

Paul
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