Re: [mm/debug] fa6726c1e7: kernel_BUG_at_include/linux/mm.h

From: Qian Cai
Date: Mon Apr 27 2020 - 22:05:19 EST




> On Apr 27, 2020, at 9:49 PM, Anshuman Khandual <Anshuman.Khandual@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This is an unsupported (enabled via CONFIG_EXPERT) X86 platform (CONFIG_X86_PAE)
> and is known to fail. The latest (V17) patch had moved the test invocation into
> a late_initcall() per Linus thus pushing down any possible failures (like this)
> after early boot. Please ignore this report.
>
> Apart from this X86_PAE based config, no other platform failures have reported
> so far. Assuming that this test robot does have a good platform coverage, the
> CONFIG_EXPERT method of enabling CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE should help in getting
> more platform coverage for this test.

This sounds really sloppy. Why canât we make it impossible to select this combination if nobody is willing to fix it?