Re: [PATCH] arch/{mips,sparc,microblaze,powerpc}: Don't enable pagefault/preempt twice

From: Al Viro
Date: Thu May 21 2020 - 21:35:31 EST


On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 02:29:50AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 06:11:08PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>
> > Mainline, with:
> >
> > qemu-system-sparc -M SS-4 -kernel arch/sparc/boot/zImage -no-reboot \
> > -snapshot -drive file=rootfs.ext2,format=raw,if=scsi \
> > -append "panic=-1 slub_debug=FZPUA root=/dev/sda console=ttyS0"
> > -nographic -monitor none
> >
> > The machine doesn't really matter, though.
>
> It does, unfortunately - try that with SS-10 and watch what happens ;-/

Ugh... It's actually something in -m handling: -m 256 passes, -m 512
leads to that panic.