Re: [BUG] machine check Oops on Alpha
From: Bob Tracy
Date: Mon Apr 18 2016 - 08:31:47 EST
On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 10:58:48PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 02:32:54AM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> > I'd be tempted to run with the patch below to see what's the value of
> > `la_ptr' early on in processing (`entInt' code in entry.S looks sane to
> > me, doesn't touch a2). NB a rebuild doesn't have to be costly if you only
> > poke at a single file or a few which aren't e.g. headers included from
> > everywhere.
>
> Applied. Build started. Report to follow in a day or so: I've applied
> other patches to my kernel source tree in the meantime, so a full build
> is unavoidable at this point... I'll hold off applying any updates
> after this to minimize what must be rebuilt while this issue is being
> worked. Thank you for your time and trouble!
Build delayed slightly. Ran into "fs/binfmt_em86.o" build failure
patched by Daniel Wagner back in February (incompatible-pointer-types
warning treated as error by compiler). Is Daniel's patch queued for
incorporation into the main kernel source tree?
--Bob