Re: [PATCH 05/05] x86: Rename paravirtualized TSC functions

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Thu Jul 10 2008 - 04:12:09 EST


On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 1:04 AM, Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 12:50 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> * Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> > that would be the tip/xen64 stuff, right? Does this revert:
>>> >
>>> > | Revert "x86_64: there's no need to preallocate level1_fixmap_pgt"
>>> > |
>>> > | This reverts commit 033786969d1d1b5af12a32a19d3a760314d05329.
>>> > |
>>> > | Suresh Siddha reported that this broke booting on his 2GB testbox.
>>> >
>>> > solve your problems, or are there other problems still?
>>>
>>> still is bisecting it now...
>>
>> ok. I have no mystery crash on my test-systems.
>>
>> by the looks of it, your crashes seem to be pagetable related. If it's
>> in the tip/xen-64bit branch, my candidates would be:
>>
>> 0f38c08: x86: use __page_aligned_data/bss
>> 0337869: x86_64: there's no need to preallocate level1_fixmap_pgt
>> 89d7bb5: x86_64: add workaround for no %gs-based percpu
>>
>> 0337869 is reverted already.
>>
>> Or if it's an older commit, two candidates would be:
>>
>> b50efd2: x86: introduce page_size_mask for 64bit
>> 3a9e189: x86: map UV chipset space - pagetable
>>
>> do you know the sha1 of the first broken tree? We know that
>> tip-history-2008-07-08_16.08_Tue is known-good.
>
> first round bisect all works..
>
> it seems make oldconfig change setting between different setting...
>
> diff .config config.full.good
> 4c4
> < # Thu Jul 10 00:52:52 2008
> ---
>> # Thu Jul 10 00:40:03 2008
> 295,296c295
> < CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL=y
> < CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
> ---
>> # CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR is not set
>
> it seems some recent change doesn't like stackprotector.

reeing unused kernel memory: 996k freed
INIT: version 2.86 booting
init[1]: segfault at 28 ip ffffffffff600108 sp 00007fff71647a40 error 4
init[1]: segfault at 28 ip ffffffffff600108 sp 00007fff71646fc0 error 4
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 2.6.26-rc9-tip-01539-g7ef7459 #280

Call Trace:
[<ffffffff80268672>] ? do_exit+0x84/0x6ce
[<ffffffff80268d42>] ? do_group_exit+0x86/0xb3
[<ffffffff802745b8>] ? get_signal_to_deliver+0x309/0x33d
[<ffffffff80272877>] ? send_signal+0x23b/0x26e
[<ffffffff802297e8>] ? do_notify_resume+0xd3/0x8fd
[<ffffffff802c292b>] ? print_vma_addr+0x110/0x12f
[<ffffffff80a4f3af>] ? do_page_fault+0x8ac/0x8fe
[<ffffffff8022a4f4>] ? mcount_call+0x5/0x31
[<ffffffff8022a4f4>] ? mcount_call+0x5/0x31
[<ffffffff80270d34>] ? sigprocmask+0xbe/0xf6
[<ffffffff8022ac78>] ? retint_signal+0x3d/0x85
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